Christianity vs Culture

“Contextualization is good and necessary. Syncretism is dangerous and should be avoided.” - Kenneth Berding

“Being mocked for believing in miracles is much easier to handle than being hated as a bigot. And it is now obvious the Christian position on the key issues of membership in society today — those of sexual identity, gender, abortion — cannot but implicate one in public debates and will merit the title of bigot.” - Carl Truman

Sharon James ‘has a longstanding track record of addressing complicated cultural debates in a way that is both biblical and comprehensible to the average Christian.” - CBMW

The Fundamentals of Sanctification - Don Johnson

“While Metaxas often acknowledges the influence of the ‘great Charles Colson’ (6, 43), he seems to reject the counsel of Colson, who wrote, ‘If we have learned anything in recent decades, it is that we should not roll out heavy-handed political movements that recklessly toss around God-and-country clichés and scare off our secular neighbors.’” - TGC

“…it is manifestly the case that with the church’s mounting capitulation to secular culture, God’s people have increasingly been marked by the antipathy to learning so characteristic of that culture.” - Ligonier

“Augustine doesn’t assess isolated trends within late Roman culture. Instead, he engages with deep structures and fundamental assumptions: the culture’s virtues as well as its vices, its piety as well as its philosophy, its political environment as well as its popular entertainment.” - TGC

“the idea that faithful Christians are safe from persecution even within Christendom has been proven false. …Christians across America—including dozens of Evangelical Christians within the halls of power—put another Christian man, Mike Pence, in mortal danger last year simply for having the basic integrity to uphold the rule of law.” - David French

“Let me label this first group The Influencers. They want a Christianity-influenced nation. Though I think The Influencers need to drop the ‘Christian nationalism’ or ‘Christian nation’ label posthaste…you can count me in with this group.” - 9 Marks

“What I am asking is if the concept of ‘separation from the world’ … has meaning anymore—among doctrinally conservative, spiritually evangelical Protestant Christians. Are there really no boundaries of behavior? If so, why do I almost never hear about them?” - Roger Olson