Comments on: About http://engagingculture.com by Logan Mauldin Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:42:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mike http://engagingculture.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 Mike Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:15:28 +0000 http://engagingculture.com/?page_id=124#comment-1011 Logan, Nice website. Started browsing it after you started commenting at the Connect website. I'd like to take more time to read some of your thoughts so I don't have a comment for now, but I just wanted to encourage you to say that I like the way that you express yourself, and even when some have disagreed with you, you seem to have responded thoughtfully and respectfully. I'll comment more later. Logan,

Nice website. Started browsing it after you started commenting at the Connect website. I’d like to take more time to read some of your thoughts so I don’t have a comment for now, but I just wanted to encourage you to say that I like the way that you express yourself, and even when some have disagreed with you, you seem to have responded thoughtfully and respectfully. I’ll comment more later.

]]> By: Logan http://engagingculture.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Logan Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:22:46 +0000 http://engagingculture.com/?page_id=124#comment-118 Hey Matt, Glad to see you found me. That's kind of the point of the site. When I say culture, I mean the sum of all of our activities, entertainment, and acts of creativity. I want people to see that "culture" and all that it entails isn't necessarily bad. I believe that culture is something inherent in human nature. Whenever people gather for certain purposes culture is created and exhibited. So I agree that while there are many forms of 'secular' culture, there is also plenty of 'church' culture. I'm not sure if I understand the 'out there' and 'in here' thing. You make it sound like all the Christians are hiding in a bomb shelter. When in reality we're never called to retreat from the world. True, we are being sanctified, therefore we can't be conformed to the world. We are called to permeate it without being permeated by it. Is this a hard balance to maintain? You betcha. Does it sometimes get messy? Yep! But I think the minute we forget that 'the world' consists of sinners just like us in need of the grace we have received, we turn it into an Us vs. Them match where no one wins. We need to stop trying to 'Christianize' secular culture. That's not what Engaging Culture is about. It means that Christians realize that we are designed by a creative God and part of reflecting his image is being creative ourselves. We need to get busy creating some true culture of our own. Sorry, sometimes I just keep rambling. Matt, I'm just glad to have a commenter. If you'd ever like to post some thoughts, your former domain name is open to share them. Or, if you'd like to get back into the blogosphere, I'd be more than happy to design you a new website. <a href="http://engagingwebsitedesign.com" rel="nofollow">Web-design is my day job</a>. God bless. Hey Matt,

Glad to see you found me. That’s kind of the point of the site. When I say culture, I mean the sum of all of our activities, entertainment, and acts of creativity. I want people to see that “culture” and all that it entails isn’t necessarily bad. I believe that culture is something inherent in human nature. Whenever people gather for certain purposes culture is created and exhibited. So I agree that while there are many forms of ‘secular’ culture, there is also plenty of ‘church’ culture.

I’m not sure if I understand the ‘out there’ and ‘in here’ thing. You make it sound like all the Christians are hiding in a bomb shelter. When in reality we’re never called to retreat from the world. True, we are being sanctified, therefore we can’t be conformed to the world. We are called to permeate it without being permeated by it. Is this a hard balance to maintain? You betcha. Does it sometimes get messy? Yep!

But I think the minute we forget that ‘the world’ consists of sinners just like us in need of the grace we have received, we turn it into an Us vs. Them match where no one wins. We need to stop trying to ‘Christianize’ secular culture. That’s not what Engaging Culture is about. It means that Christians realize that we are designed by a creative God and part of reflecting his image is being creative ourselves. We need to get busy creating some true culture of our own.

Sorry, sometimes I just keep rambling. Matt, I’m just glad to have a commenter. If you’d ever like to post some thoughts, your former domain name is open to share them. Or, if you’d like to get back into the blogosphere, I’d be more than happy to design you a new website. Web-design is my day job. God bless.

]]> By: Matt Westbrook http://engagingculture.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Matt Westbrook Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:46:34 +0000 http://engagingculture.com/?page_id=124#comment-117 Be careful that you don't fail to recognize that "culture" is not something "out there" relative to Christian faith. There's plenty of culture "in here." Sincerely, The former owner of the domain name www.engagingculture.com Be careful that you don’t fail to recognize that “culture” is not something “out there” relative to Christian faith. There’s plenty of culture “in here.”

Sincerely,

The former owner of the domain name http://www.engagingculture.com

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