More On Culture

This is an interesting and relevant quote I came across in an article that Dani sent me. I think this quote sums up a lot of our thoughts about and disappointments with the modern Church's inability to understand the importance of the culture around it. The article comes from www.emergingchurch.info.

I long for a culturally relevant church. I don't understand why cross-cultural missionaries attempt to understand culture to present the gospel within it, while churches in the developed world tend to simply withdraw from their own culture, often condemning its evils. Unfortunately for them, our culture is filled with people who need to see real Christianity in action: they have seen enough caricatures of Christianity already. Being culturally relevant in the early 21st century means understanding -gasp!- postmodernism.