Christ Transforming Culture (Proper C29)

At our ministerial meeting today, we wrestled with what a culture ruled by Christ would look like.

What does it mean to our sports culture? The Unionville-Sebewaing Area Patriots are trouncing every football team they come across and are well on their way to the Silver Dome for playoffs. The whole town is peppered with signs of support, eyes all atwinkle in the Friday-night lights. One church reads "Hallelujah, Praise be the Patriots" the blasphemy is, I hope, comical.

Is this culture out of step with the Kingdom? How can we root on our team in a way that worships God (ala Brother Lawrence)?

Chuck thought about putting a man on a cross with the face of George Bush… Who is your king?

What does it mean for us to live the culture of the Kingdom? Would it be a neo-monastic commune somehow immunized from cultic dictators and splits, always practicing the discipline of corporate guidance? How can Christ transform the culture we find ourselves in?

My great goal on Sunday is to share the excitement of the Kingdom of Christ! I want to start with the thief on the cross (a puppet singing Third Day's Thief), his experience of the immediacy of the Kingdom.