Christianity on culture (vs. politics) and to be lived out in public community
Updating my notes and getting ready to record Acts 13-14. Here’s a great quote from Kavin Rowe in his excellent book on the Gospel as profoundly anti-World/culture, but not so much anti-political. On the four cultural conflict/impact stories from the second half of Luke’s narrative (Lystra [Acts 14]; Philippi [Acts 16], Athens [Acts 17], Ephesus [Acts 19]), Rowe describes followers of “the way” and their God as “the collision between two different ways of life. Taken as a whole, the four passages tell the story of a profound incommensurability between the life-shape of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world and the larger pattern of pagan religiousness…[Further,] to call into question pagan religion is to critique pagan culture…[Related:] salvation is not, according to Acts, oriented solely toward the internal aspect of the human being…[it] entails necessarily the formation of a community, a public pattern of life that witnesses to the present dominion of the resurrected Lord of all. If…we have trouble grasping this point, we would do well to remember that the ancient pagans did not.” (Thus, their reactions!)
More simply, Christians are called to a different way of life (beyond mere beliefs or mental assent)– and that life is to be public and lived in community (vs. private and closeted). In contrast, many Christians (whether cultural/self-styled or more earnest) imagine the faith as something much thinner. As per James, can such a faith save? It’s not for us to judge, but it does invite some challenging questions. In any case, it points to how much people are missing about the goodness and greatness of God’s Kingdom.
Source: http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2026/11/updating-my-notes-and-getting-ready-to.html
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