Sep 26, 2016: Church Shaped by Culture

Robert E. Webber

[This is] how people who have been overly influenced by current cultural ideology think of the church . . . apart from its source in God’s narrative. The church has become a business that sells Jesus—the culture of consumerism. Theology has become an analytical discipline that scientifically examines propositions—the culture of reason. Worship has become an entertaining program that presents Jesus in a winsome way—the culture of entertainment. Spirituality has become an experience of transcendence achieved through Christian technique—the New Age culture of generic spirituality. The church’s life in the world is to do good so people can see that Jesus is all about being nice and helpful—the culture of humanism.


-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 123-124.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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