“Instead of engaging…[the] secular world, most Christians have taken the easy way out. They have retreated into a Christian subculture where they engage Christian concerns. Then they step back into secular society, where their Christianity is kept out of sight until the next church service. Without realizing it Christians have become postmodernists of a sort: they live by the gospel of the two truths. There is religious truth reserved for Sundays and days of worship, and there is secular truth, which applies the rest of time.”—Dinesh D’Souza
Tag Archives: Worldview
Barna Studies the Research – Year-in-Review Perspective
Here is the full article. But here is one observation worth noting here:
“Ultimately, in a culture where people are busy, distracted, confused and trying to keep it all together, there is less loyalty to a faith brand than to self. The purpose of faith, for most Americans, is not so much to discover truth or to relate to a loving, praiseworthy deity as it is to become happy, successful, comfortable and secure. For a growing percentage of citizens, their sense of spirituality, more than Christianity, facilitates those outcomes.”
We have a great opportunity to grow and focus in 2010 as Christians.
How to watch a movie and Hollywood Worldviews
Wisdom, awareness, and discernment for watching Movies.
“As viewers, we must be sensitive to our own weaknesses and negative propensities…we must be careful to draw personal lines that we will not cross, based upon what particular things affect us negatively when we are exposed to them in movies.”—Brian Godawa
A Great book is Hollywood Worldviews and also check out plugged in online.
Moving Beyond Sunday Morning Christianity
“Our lives are often fractured and fragmented, with our faith firmly locked into the private realm of the church and family, where it rarely has a chance to inform our life and work in the public realm. The aura of worship dissipates after Sunday, and we unconsciously absorb secular attitudes the rest of the week. We inhabit two separate “worlds,” navigating a sharp divide between our religious life and ordinary life.”—Nancy Pearcey
This was one of the quotes that led me to start Think Christianly almost 6 years ago. A very important observation from a very important book:
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural CaptivityWhy the Bible?
Here is a great video by Ravi Zacharias.