tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080491.post115463370635474484..comments2024-01-12T09:37:16.515-06:00Comments on paleoevangelical: Salt and Light: The Church in the WorldBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07113808932788409800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080491.post-1154707243074188552006-08-04T11:00:00.000-05:002006-08-04T11:00:00.000-05:00Ben, I left the following comment to your question...Ben, <BR/><BR/>I left the following comment to your question over at my blog, too.<BR/><BR/>I would tend to agree with Keller's statements. My fear in this whole debate is that Christians are being pushed to become like the culture in order to reach the culture.<BR/><BR/>Can't we be in culture without being like culture?<BR/><BR/>When we send missionaries cross-culturally, do we expect them to attend the seances and witchcraft festivals in Africa? Do we expect them to enter into the mosques? Should they attend the Buddhist festivals in India?<BR/><BR/>As for the "redeeming culture" comments, my problem is the emphasis. I've only listened to two sermons by Driscoll, and in both of these sermons the emphasis is on redeeming culture rather than redeeming people. The redemption of culture is preached as the means to the end of redeeming people. I think this is backwards. I believe that the only way we are going to see any redeeming of culture is through God's redeeming of people. Therefore, the redemption of people is the means by which we can redeem culture.<BR/><BR/>I guess my issues with Driscoll could be boiled down to a single issue ... it's not that he's a heretic (although he seems to constantly be pushing his people to consume alcoholic beverages, almost insinuating that to enjoy life and culture as God designed, you MUST drink non-light beer), it's that his emphasis seems a bit skewed in the overall scheme of things.<BR/><BR/>When this happens, holiness and purity usually are de-emphasized (although he would argue this point). I'm wondering if eschatological views (i.e., post-millennialism) might play into this whole debate ... if we succeed in redeeming the culture, we will usher in the return of Christ.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if this is the case, but I wonder if it's true!Ken Fieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06348914541147852019noreply@blogger.com