Engaging whose Culture...

If you google "engaging the culture," there are about thirty seven thousand hits. Funny, but if you google "engaging our culture" there are about four hundred. There are eighteen for "engaging your culture." It tells me that American Christians don't claim the American culture. Even though it is pretty firmly entrenched in most of us. I say this because it seems to me if one isn't enjoying the culture of our homeland, one is enjoying fighting it. Even if one is totally ignorant of what they mean by culture.

What is the American culture? Is it the works of literature and art that happen to come out of American people? Is it the movies? The products and services that we produce and purchase? What influences the culture? Is it the people who influence the culture or the culture that influences the people? Apparently from the sites, Christians can influence the culture without it influencing them back, but non Christians are certainly influenced by the culture without having much impact on it.As if the act of accepting Jesus as your lord and savior is a vaccination against cultural infection.But what I don't understand is how you can want to reach people you obviously cannot stand or respect.

I only wish I thought of it first....

(Warning, contains the word shit. Do not watch the video if that offends you. Don't watch CNN either, because you'll hear it there too. Fox news probably bleeps it.)

Our new national anthem perhaps??

http://tinyurl.com/nr52c