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CHECK YOUR REFORMATION LENSES
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The Bible presents God as the original culture-creator, the One who brings the world into existence, orders its structure, and fills it with life in Genesis 1. From that divine act of creation, God entrusts humanity with the dominion mandate in Genesis 2 — a commission to cultivate, steward, and extend His creative work throughout the earth. Culture is built by creators, and humanity was designed to continue the creative pattern first demonstrated by God.
Culture also includes the idea of an agent of change — a leavening force like yeast or any system of beliefs, values, or dogmas that shapes and transforms its environment. The word culture identifies both the transforming agent and the reality that is shaped, ordered, and developed through that influence. Its transformative nature works change into whatever medium it enters, producing identifiable patterns, expressions, and ways of life, such as what we recognize in the Hispanic culture. In this way, culture encompasses both the leavening agent and the results of the transformation it produces. The following questions explore this dual meaning of culture as both the agent and the cultivation.
Three Discussion Questions:
The Bible presents God as the original culture-creator, the One who brings the world into existence, orders its structure, and fills it with life in Genesis 1. From that divine act of creation, God entrusts humanity with the dominion mandate in Genesis 2 — a commission to cultivate, steward, and extend His creative work throughout the earth. Culture is built by creators, and humanity was designed to continue the creative pattern first demonstrated by God.
Culture also includes the idea of an agent of change — a leavening force like yeast or any system of beliefs, values, or dogmas that shapes and transforms its environment. The word culture identifies both the transforming agent and the reality that is shaped, ordered, and developed through that influence. Its transformative nature works change into whatever medium it enters, producing identifiable patterns, expressions, and ways of life, such as what we recognize in the Hispanic culture. In this way, culture encompasses both the leavening agent and the results of the transformation it produces. The following questions explore this dual meaning of culture as both the agent and the cultivation.
Three Discussion Questions:
- How does seeing God as the original culture-creator in Genesis 1 and humanity as commissioned culture-builders in Genesis 2, shape our understanding of human creativity and responsibility in the world today?
- In what ways does recognizing culture as an agent of change — like yeast or a system of beliefs and values — help us better understand how ideas, doctrines, or worldviews transform the environments into which they are introduced? What did Jesus mean when He warned his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisee? What did Jesus mean in His parables when He said that the Kingdom of God was like leaven that a woman worked into her bread?
- How does the dual meaning of culture, as both the leavening agent and the transformed result, deepen our understanding of how identifiable patterns within a people group emerge and develop over time? God’s Word is a leavening agent that builds a kingdom culture. The pagan nations in the days of the Old Testament also built cultures, but God did not approve of those cultures. Can you identify what their leavening agents were and how their held and practiced beliefs created a culture contrary to the Kingdom of God.
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I am hosting a monthly mentorship call in which I will go into more details about each question. I will response to your questions and help you discover how and where to apply reformation truths.
Are you interested in mentorship?
Join me for this month’s video call by registering here: