Ted Dekker
Here is part of an essay that Ted Dekker wrote on his website www.teddekker.com He is an amazing author and I highly recommend you go visit the site and read some of his books. If you go to the site you can see a short clip that explains what all of his books are about. k thanks.
The war over the ideas and passions of humanity are more often than not fought on the cutting edges of culture. The future of society is determined by what happens on the edge here. It is where we find the expressions of humanity�s search for meaning and belonging; of the created being�s quest to find their creator. New ideas, new fashions, new music, new kinds of stories and movies. The church tends to condemn most of these expressions as forms of destructive rebellion and rightly so in many situations.
But there is a fine line between rebellion and revoltuion and we must remind ourselves that following Christ is no less counter-cultural than the most radical expression of our own culture. Christians are meant to lead this passionate quest for meaning. Wouldn�t Christianity do better to find itself on the fringes of culture today instead of whitewashing itself in the mediocrity of prevailing culture? Indeed, isn�t this exactly what Jesus himself did? I think it�s hard to make an argument that Christ had anything but a radical counter cultural movement in mind when he gave his life.
Even more to the point, when the �culture� of Christianity becomes the prevailing culture as it has in parts of North America, the quest for the passionate, all-consuming, mysterious Creator tends to stall, and is subsequently replaced by stale religion that has little power to counter the culture of sin within us. To transfrom our lives.
~Ted Dekker~
The war over the ideas and passions of humanity are more often than not fought on the cutting edges of culture. The future of society is determined by what happens on the edge here. It is where we find the expressions of humanity�s search for meaning and belonging; of the created being�s quest to find their creator. New ideas, new fashions, new music, new kinds of stories and movies. The church tends to condemn most of these expressions as forms of destructive rebellion and rightly so in many situations.
But there is a fine line between rebellion and revoltuion and we must remind ourselves that following Christ is no less counter-cultural than the most radical expression of our own culture. Christians are meant to lead this passionate quest for meaning. Wouldn�t Christianity do better to find itself on the fringes of culture today instead of whitewashing itself in the mediocrity of prevailing culture? Indeed, isn�t this exactly what Jesus himself did? I think it�s hard to make an argument that Christ had anything but a radical counter cultural movement in mind when he gave his life.
Even more to the point, when the �culture� of Christianity becomes the prevailing culture as it has in parts of North America, the quest for the passionate, all-consuming, mysterious Creator tends to stall, and is subsequently replaced by stale religion that has little power to counter the culture of sin within us. To transfrom our lives.
~Ted Dekker~