Culture
Week 1: What is Christian Culture?
As Christians, are we to have a unique culture? How should Christians look distinct from the world by the way they live? What is to define the way Christians interact with one another and with the world?
Week 2: What We Make of This World
Culture involves what we as societies make of the materials in this world. Navigating the positives and negatives of culture both inside of the Church and beyond will go a long way in navigating how to live God-honoring lives in this world.
Week 3: A New Culture
Culture is a beautiful gift from God, yet it is not free of its brokenness. How might Christians not retreat from culture but acknowledge it and redeem it through the Gospel of Christ?
Week 4: Consumerism and Christ
Could the issue of consuming food sacrificed to idols in the ancient church of Corinth have any relevance for us today? Yes, a lot actually. The things we choose to consume, the way it affects us, the way it affects those around us, and the choice to lovingly limit one's self for the sake of another all play into this important topic.
Week 5: Jesus and the Good Life
What is the Good Life? What might the Christian conception of the Good Life have to differ from popular culture's ideas? How might we fully live into our identities as Christians and live the fullness of life God has called us to?
Week 6: Run To Win
The apostle Paul compares the Christian life to a race which involved great discipline in hopes of a future crown. What might this mean for us today as Christians seeking to become like Jesus? How might we grow in discipline for the sake of loving God and loving others more fully?
Week 7: Good Fear
Can fear actually be valuable sometimes? Could it be that Israel's past mistakes can actually serve to warn us in a healthy way of our own inclinations to sin? Can a healthy fear of God actually push us to a deeper love for Christ?
Week 8: Bread, Wine, & Money
The Lord's Supper was to be the pinnacle of the Church's unity across gender, economic, and social lines as one Body but due to corruption it ended up looking more like a typical Corinthian dinner party. In what ways are we replicating this same sin in the way we interact as fellow Christians? How might we put down the idols of our culture and truly love Christ and all people for the sake of the Gospel?
