approaches to pop culture

Desiring God 2006 National Conference Q&A


Check out Mark Driscoll's/John Piper's response (11:00-19:00) to the question:
To Piper, the question is asked: "How do you stay relevant by - not totally, but by and large - avoiding pop culture?"

To Driscoll, the question is asked: "How do you stay faithful in transforming, rather than (being) transformed by taking part more in pop culture?"

Driscoll says -
"Those who are culturally relevant without being biblically faithful tend to be 'relevant heretics' and that's not our objective. Those who are faithful to scripture and removed from culture can sometimes be 'irrelevant orthodox' and our goal would be 'relevant othodoxy'"
and then proceeds to reference 1 Corinthians 9 -

"For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings."

- 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Well put sir.

repent of our confidence in the flesh

"We need to repent not only of our sin but also of our "righteousness" when we think of it as our righteousness, which we do to prove ourselves and which we think makes us better than other people."

- Tim Chester
You Can Change pg.45

Its a crazy and counter-intuitive idea that I need to "repent of any righteousness of my own that comes from the law, so that in it's place [I] could receive the righteousness from God that depends on faith".