• Yes. 70%
• No, Cultural literacy is not important to Christian life. 4%
• No, Christians should learn about culture, but not necessarily from the church. 26%

Total Votes: 672

sigh Fortunately the current poll shows that most people think Evangelicalism is in need of a total overhaul.

It’s not that we need to learn about the culture, like some student in a classroom, (oh… so most people have no idea who The Newsboys are? Fascinating…) it’s that we need to be involved in the culture. What we need to learn is how to DISCERN from the culture, how to bring the gospel to it. Some people are saying we need to “exegete” the culture, which I think is a very very good way of putting it.

It’s amazing how ignorant we can be. If we avoid the music, the media, the people who aren’t inside our little spiritual huddle, we can close ourselves off completely and be totally blind to what’s happening across the street, downtown, in the state… I see it everywhere.

This poll killed me too, which is why I took time to comment on it. How sad.

How is the Church going to teach culture, anyway? To be honest, I think it’s teaching McDonalds/Marketing/Capitalism culture already pretty well. Should it?

Here’s a good poll question: Should right and wrong be decided by polls in the Church?