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Hollywood worldviews: anorexics or gluttons
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Glutton or anorexic?
How do we respond to or view culture?
What is culture?
Cultivation
Cultivation
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
•Condemn it•Consume it•Critique it•Copy it
How do we respond to culture?
The anorexic approachThe glutton’s approach
•Create it
•Culture is not optional!•We are part of it•We cannot escape it •It’s what we are called to do - to work and keep the garden
Reasons for cultural anorexia
•Dualism•Confusing structure and
direction •A misunderstanding of
spirituality
Reasons for cultural anorexia
Reasons for cultural anorexia
Sacred
Secular
Reasons for cultural anorexia
Sacred
Secular
Reasons for cultural anorexia
SecularSacred
"There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan."
The need for a biblical understanding of spirituality
Culture - in all its forms
Worldview
Religion
Story
QUESTIONS
PRAXISSymbols
Who are we? Why are we here?What is wrong? What is the remedy?
Farmer Bell
Who are we? Why are we here?
What is wrong? What is the remedy?
Farmer Bell
A go ahead farmer is Jonathon BellWho works his farm and he works it wellHe doesn't hold much with the good old days.In modern times use modern ways.
Electric mechanical all that is newWhich does the work that men used to do.He swears by it all and he proves it tooOn his modern mechanical farm.
Farmer Bell
Who are we? Why are we here?
What is wrong? What is the remedy?
Windy Miller
Who are we? Why are we here?
What is wrong? What is the remedy?
Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton
Transforming Vision
Al Wolters
Creation Regained
How do you eat an elephant?
One bit at a time
How do we change culture?