Culture

Recommended Reading:
When the Treasuries Are Empty (PDF file)
Sovereignty vs. Grace
The Case Against Western Civilization, Parts 1-7 


So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:27-28)

Theologians have dubbed the passage above The Dominion Covenant, The Dominion Mandate or The Cultural Mandate. It contains, in kernel form, God's intention that man cultivate the world according to the template of the Garden of Eden and in conformity to His ethical standards.

The books of Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy expand on these elements of culture. In addition, the Great Commission mandates a cultural change through teaching national groups to "obey all things" that Christ has commanded. Tragically, the Church in the West has taken a radically different road.

Defeat by Default: Pietism's Assimilation into Humanist Culture

The church did not hold a conference in the'60s and decide that the Beatles' style of music was going to overtake the sound of church worship. Worship music drifted in that direction because American music and culture drifted in that direction. The arts are becoming a major aspect of so many churches because our culture has comet to  value the visual. Movies and entertainment are a high priority in our culture. This drift has affected local churches by altering what they think they must do to communicate to the average person. (Henry Reyenga, Jr., The Spontaneous Spread of Home-Discipleship Christianity, p. 185)

More to come . . . .