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Sub-Culture vs. Counter-culture

I stumbled across a discussion between Kevin Twit (RUF Campus Minister @ Belmont University), Derek Webb, and another man who I didn't know about the topic of Christianity as a subculture versus Christianity as a counterculture. The MP3 of this conversation can be found HERE.

The discussion that they have focuses alot on what our role as Christians is in our culture (as you might guess). The big question which guides their discussion is what does it look like to be IN the world, but not OF the world. The arguement hinges upon these two prepositions, IN & OF. Some Christians say we shouldn't be IN or OF(fundamentalists, withdrawn), some say we should be IN and OF (possibilities are endless when we ascribe to worldliness in our thoughts and actions, we are no longer different in any sense of the word), and then there is the misconstuence of what it means to be IN but not OF(Christian everything- businesses, music, restaurants, etc. etc.).

There was also some questions specifically do Derek about how he does what he does in a Christian industry, yet is so outspokenly against much of what the Christian music industry is doing and stands for as a whole.

It's worth all 83 minutes that it'll take you to listen to it.

posted by corbs @ 2:38 PM