Christian Isolationists and Cultural Redemptives
Are Christians to flee from the sin-tainted culture around us, or engage and try to redeem it? What are the benefits--and costs--of withdrawing from the world? More >
a good article i think. It is something that I struggle a lot. where to draw the line. Hope it will give you some new insights and give you a better idea where you are.
ps. since this is relatively heavy, let me add something light :p
context: akanie and danio talking about sports. along the line how some sports are predominated by a particular group of people (social status) or race. For example, taiwan aborigines are better at baseball. However, there are some exceptions like tiger, yao-ming, arthur ash....etc
danio: let's take another extreme example
akanie: ok?
danio: there is no good table tennis player from the u.s
danio: :p (thinking he got akanie beat on this one)
..............................
akanie: forest gump
danio: ...................... good job sop
a good article i think. It is something that I struggle a lot. where to draw the line. Hope it will give you some new insights and give you a better idea where you are.
ps. since this is relatively heavy, let me add something light :p
context: akanie and danio talking about sports. along the line how some sports are predominated by a particular group of people (social status) or race. For example, taiwan aborigines are better at baseball. However, there are some exceptions like tiger, yao-ming, arthur ash....etc
danio: let's take another extreme example
akanie: ok?
danio: there is no good table tennis player from the u.s
danio: :p (thinking he got akanie beat on this one)
..............................
akanie: forest gump
danio: ...................... good job sop
I like the article. The author says:
Christ was in the culture. He didn't isolate himself from sinners, regardless of how the religious leaders felt about it. He ate with a tax collector, touched a leper, forgave an adulteress, and spoke to a woman at a well. At the same time, Jesus didn't allow the surrounding culture to change him.
It seems like Christ is "in the world but not of the world". Here is a illustration: when fish swim in the sea, although the sea is salty, the fish is not salty. The fish drinks salty sea walter, eat all the sea weeds produced by the salty sea water, but the fish is not salty. The fish doesn't say, "I don't want to be infected by the salty water, therefore I'll isolate myself in a big bubble." Neither does the fish say, "I'm in the salty water, but that's ok, because my goal is to influence other fishes to make them not salty, and I'll stay unsalty".
其實也許魚並不在乎自己salty不salty... 牠只在乎自己是"Dead or Alive" (or "DOA") 活的魚自己不salty...但魚死了泡在海里就salty了...
As Christians, we have received the words of eternal life. 有了一個新的生命：）很多時候我們並不曉得該做什麽，但一讀聖經就清楚了，一讀聖經就有力量了，一禱告心里就平安了。那時我們就是“活魚”：）
- And He said to them, Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matthew 4:19
- The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63
- Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. John 6:68
Posted by
David Wu |
5/17/2005 06:10:00 PM