All of us are consumers of our own culture. Some people's minds are fed nothing but conventional, mainstream, politically correct education and entertainment. But conventional opinion may be good, it may be true - or it may be neither good nor true.
Author Hugh Whelchel asks, "Have Christians Lost the Ability to Be in the World but Not of it?" For about a century, he says, the church has been absorbing more than influencing culture.
The world would like us to conform, to just "take their word for it." They can be rough and judgmental - but the Bible says not to blindly conform to culture:
"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
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