"It is time to abandon the evangelical quest to be 'relevant.' We need to be more cautious about letting cultural trends..."
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“We have an unfortunate tendency to chase what is cool in our culture and make it the centerpiece of our ministry (often denigrating other ministries that don’t share our vision). Meanwhile, we don’t realize that we are really about 10 years behind the cultural trends anyway. We are perennial late-comers to what our world thinks is hip.” The Arrogance of the Urban, Part 2
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Who's "post-Christian" and who isn't?
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Barna has developed a 15 question metric. “Post-Christian = meet at least 60% of the following 15 factors (9 or more factors) highly post-Christian = meet at least 80% of the following 15 factors (12 or more factors)”
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Topics to discuss with teens before prom
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“Long before plans for this cultural springtime event start to take shape, we need to begin talking with our teens about media messages and our biblical worldview.” From thrivingfamily.com
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"[T]aking any stand on homosexuality short of complete... affirmation will soon place one in the same moral category as a Klansman"
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“I am not a cultural transformationalist; but if there are any such reading this blog, I might suggest that now would be a good time for you chaps to start proving me wrong. Yes, I do appreciate the cool movie reviews, the nice paintings… but I have a suspicion that it would really be much more helpful if we were seeing some transformation for the good in society’s moral and legal standards.”
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Barna: Evangelical movie-going habits surprisingly high
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“The evangelical average is a full movie more than the national adult average, and just shy of the average of 3 films seen by those professing no religion.”
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