Intersect Culture Session 1: Begin

[Derrick Scott III]

God calls the church to be a counterculture (not subculture) for the common good.
Questions we can discuss:

What is beautiful about our culture? What is broken about culture?

What is broken in regards to the Church, and how does that brokenness prevent us (The Church) from working more for the common good?

Using 1 Peter 2:9-17, how should Christ-followers respond if their neighbors do not respond to good deeds by glorifying God?

Who are the counter-cultural role models of the Church, whether in history or today?

[Molly]

I think the thing that makes the church broken and at the same time beautiful is that we as humans are in a sense broken. We are broken because we have to some degree lost the connection that we once had with God and are trying desperately to get it back. This is good and bad. It is good because if we realize it about ourselves then we are open and able to be used by God to reach others like us. It is bad because sometimes we don't realize we are missing anything and we get comfortable. In our being comfortable we get cocky and forget that we are like the rest of the world, trying to reconnect with something that we are missing. When we forget that we are searching too, then we make it so we are not open to being used by God to reach other broken people and give them hope. (I hope that makes sense I am really tired right now.) When we are honest with ourselves and the world then though we could be called broken we can bring hope to others because we know how and WHO can restore our souls and get us connected again to our Father.