Ok, so I've been really busy lately it's been hard to keep up with the blogsphere I watch, let a lone come out hear and sound creative or smart.

Ok, so I'm really going to talk about the book Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger. So here we go....

The first section of the book is called "A brief Look at Culture." I want to talk about what's under the heading Why Must the Western Church Today Study Culture?

"the study of culture is a highly significant issue that addresses the relationship among Christ, the gospel, the church and culture. For many years , the standard textbook on this issue was, H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture. In recent years, Niebuhr's work has come under severe criticism. Rodney Clapp comments, "Christ and Culture was the creature of a time when few Christians could conceive of the church as itself a culture." This raises the missional question as or whether the church exists simply as a subculture or a counterculture or whether it can become truly cross-cultural in the sense of crossing into the broader culture through proclaiming the good news within that culture context." {page 16}

To paraphrase, it goes on to say that there has been debate about the gospel and culture as of late, but not gospel and church. The "chasm widens"between the church and culutre as the culture floats away from it's spiritual roots.

Yeah, so? What about it? Is the church lining up with Gospel? Is capital C Church fulfilling the mission to the culture? Have we become a side-lined subculture? Am I the only one on here that thinks that the church is not impacted our corners of the word as we should? Help me unpack
this.

[something freaky just happend with the template, I hope I can fix this.]