Have we as believers become more culture followers than Christ followers? Are we now too cultural? While it is true we are in this world and need to reach the lost, we are not of this world! (John 17:16) It is a real challenge to reach the lost today. Churches are challenged to find ways to draw in the lost, especially our youth. There are so many half-truths being thrown around and semi-CHRISTian doctrine, that many of all ages are following the lies, thinking their soul is saved . . . not true! The Gospel is still the Truth!
Peter almost missed the point by sticking too close to culture. His cultural diet was keeping him from going to the next level of ministry with Jesus. He was comfortable sticking with the Jewish diet and those who looked like him and ate like him . . . until God reminded him in a vision:
Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. 1In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.” And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.” This was done three times. And the object was taken up into heaven again. (Acts 10:10-16)
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