Christians are “citizens of heaven,” the Bible tells us. The Bible refers to Christians as exiles in the world. And this way of interacting with culture hinges on the concept of being an exile.Īn exile is someone who was forced out of their home country and is now living somewhere else. Under the facade of “witnessing to friends” the new Christian’s life might not really look all that different from cultural norms they offer nothing of Gospel value to those around them.īut there is another way forward that is not such a simple binary. On the flip side, for newer Christians who didn’t grow up in a Christian family, there can be a tendency to be just like the people in the culture. But this leads to Christians that never engage with society, and you have to engage with the world if you’re going to love the world. For people who grew up in a Christian household, there is the tendency toward the first option-shutting out the world around us in order to “protect the purity” of the community. It’s easy to feel like there are only two choices: retreat from culture, or assimilate to culture. As Christians in America, we can easily find ourselves unsure of how to interact with the culture around us.
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