Does your Culture have to change in order for you to embrace Christ?
As a Christian I often think people think we must make such drastic change in our life to be able to be a Christian. What changes do you think are necessary. I posted my answer on my site in my devotional and will be moving it to my biog tomorrow. Today is the 12th of June. I would like to hear what others of different faiths and cultures believe both non christian and Christian.
2007-07-12 00:36:14 · 10 answers · asked by turtle30c 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you just changed my calender to July. I meant 12th of July. Thank you.
2007-07-12 01:05:50 · update #1
A full frontal lobotomy might facilitate such a change in me.
2007-07-12 00:42:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
All of our culture must change. We are to mortify the world (Romans 8:13; Colossians 3:5) and embrace and put on righteousness. God's way makes you a peculiar person (Titus 2:14; 1 Peter 2:9) meaning that we are totally different than all those around us. Since God does not change (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8), then His expectations of how we are to live our life have never changed.
2007-07-16 15:47:32 · answer #2 · answered by Scott 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you mean "culture". A culture is an ethnicity, a worldview shared by a nation, regional or language group.
I think that as each individual's heart changes in response to Christ's leading the culture would change automatically. In order to effect a culture-wide change we would have to see a revival, many people coming to the Lord at the same time. This is not to be expected on, say, a national scale.
Many people embrace Christ without the culture that surrounds them changing a bit. If you mean "does your lifestyle have to change"...the change comes **after** you embrace Christ. Only when he is once living in you can you see the things that displease, sadden or don't glorify him in your life, and what you have to do to change them.
Sadly, though, I know many people in several countries who claim to be members of Christ's body but who refuse to acknowledge or change various aspects of their attitudes, lives etc. because "that's just the way they are."
2007-07-13 16:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think in terms of wanting society or culture to change that has to come from inside the people living that culture. In terms of Christianity the only way to truly change is to accept Jesus into your heart (or some other kind of wording). Wouldn't this mean that from a Christian stand point everyone would have to accept Jesus first and then society would change naturally from the inside out as it were.
Also you may find it interesting that I am not a Christian
2007-07-12 07:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Brother I tell you the truth, When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well, She knew that Jesus was part of a culture that there was racial tension between to the two. She was astounded that Jesus was even speaking to her. John 4:1-42
"The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans." 13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Here Jesus makes it clear that she did not have to start living according to what Jews thought was acceptable, but that all she had to do was accept Jesus, not become a jew, or change or culture or cultural beliefs.
2007-07-19 15:59:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To embrace Christ (live by his teachings) is to practice the virtues of personal humility and compassion for others (especially for those who have less in life). The extent to which your personal life are not in conformity with these virtues is not necessarily on national, racial or religious cultures. It is a personal attribute resulting from all the previous choices we have made.
2007-07-19 09:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by akoypinoy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think that the culture has to change for any religion. I am not a Christian, but I live in the American culture of people celebrating Christmas. So we celebrate. It holds no religious value to me. People are gonna believe what they want, its up to you to hold on to your own faith, and not societys.
2007-07-19 08:36:39 · answer #7 · answered by Miss 6 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You may have an appraised value of something, but the essential value is its inherent value. To walk (live) in a manner worthy and to live in a manner worthy, we must conduct ourselves in a manner that measures up to the value of our salvation. It stands for a lifestyle for us all. If our concept of salvation means everything when it comes to living, how you look at your salvation determines how you live. Consequently, the value of your salvation is going to determine how you live. If it has not affected your lifestyle, if it has not affected the way you talk to people and about people, if it has not affected the way you treat others, then you have got a low appraisal value of something that is essentially worth far more than what you have even realized. Then your life is not measuring up to any standard that God requires. Walk (live) in a manner worthy that gives you the essential value of your salvation, measured by the way you allow it to affect your life.
"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk (live) worthy of the calling with which you were called… Ephesians 4:1 (NKJ)
2007-07-12 19:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by Venetia M 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Soon there will be one culture under God. The four horsemen are bridled and saddled up!
2007-07-20 03:33:28 · answer #9 · answered by LELAND 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You definitely need to change your calendar - today's 12th July.
2007-07-12 07:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by Namlevram 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋