Churches, Culture & David Wells

If you're familiar at all with this blog than you know how much I admire Dr. David Wells. I wanted to make you aware of this quote from a recent interview he gave with Mark Dever and 9Marks (which you can listen to here). I think he is right on when he says...

"In our time, understanding our culture takes on an urgency because this culture is so intrusive and so powerful in its capacity to shape our souls and minds that if we are not pushing back from an explicitly biblical, Christian point of view – we are going to get swallowed up."

I could not agree more. The evidence of our getting swallowed up by the culture is all around us -- to our obsession from the business and marketing world with numbers = success, to our idea that excellence = state of the art with no errors, to faithfulness in ministry = productivity, on and on and on!

Like Jonah many of us have been swallowed, and I just pray that we repent so that the grace seen in Jonah 3:1 will be seen in our lives and churches as well.