What time is it.

I just wrote this for a class, thought I would share it. It is in response to a question about the intersection of faith and culture.

Wow is right. I see that we are at a really neat place in history. The way we as the leaders of Christian church in America treat the next ten to twenty years will determine whether or not Christianity can grab ahold in this culture. We are in a time period where people are questioning everything including the things that at the very fiber of who we are has simply been assumed.

I think it is great. We have a product that is THE TRUTH. It answers all questions. It weathers all storms. It puts out all flames. It quenches all thirsts and fills every hungry belly. God is the answer.

We must though take an honest look at how we have presented God to the world in the past. We must check, double check, and even have our friends check to see if the way we are living stands up to what we are teaching. God is perfect, the way we do Christianity is not. God is perfect, the way we do church is not. God is perfect, the way we live our lives is not. We must stop faking it. I don't know is a viable answer. Faith by definition is an -- "I don't know, but I know" -- kinda answer.

We must hold to the absolutes that we know. Before we can do that we have to honestly look at what is an absolute and what is not. Looking at the far ends of the spectrum and working our way to the middle. There is a God -- I don't have to wear a tie in worship to serve God. Now start working your way to the middle. We should then focus on the absolutes.

Once we have done this we focus on what God focused on. We should all conclude to focus on Love or relationship -- which entails love. If we major in what Christ majored in and focus on grace and love, the world we live in will come to know Christ. Christianity may look different than it has for the last several hundred years, but people will follow Christ.