Distinctive Christian Culture (DCC)

Distinctive Christian Culture is a "Robism." I am making a new category. VanTil said, "Culture is religion externalized." I say, "Face Book is culture." Therefore, Face Book is religion externalized. Face Book is a platform for people to show the world what they cherish most. People don't put pix of their trash on face book and celebrate it. So, what are the sights, sounds, and smells (culture) of your face book?

Absolute Truth means that there is one standard. Relative Truth is what today's culture soaks in. The controlling ideologies of the day would have you to believe that truth can change from person to person. This is a lie.

While perspectives may change, truth does not. There is a truth... one truth. Preference may vary from person to person, but truth does not. This goes against political correctness, and multi-culturalism (there is that word again... "culture").

If there are 40 chairs in a room, and 3 people say that there are 38, 42, and 50 chairs in a room, then none of them are right. Truth is like that. It does not get upset when people are wrong, and it doesn't change based upon someones ideological bent. All people can be wrong, but not all people can be right. If capitalism is right, then by definition, socialism is wrong. There may be a little of both, but certainly there will be a majority of one economic system, or it would cease to be called one or the other.

Our prevailing culture hates distinctions. The contemporary thinking says, "Everyone gets to choose for himself what is right, beautiful, and good." This means, "Everyone can have his own truth." But is that true? This is different than preference... I prefer steak, you prefer fish. But a steak is distinctively different from a fish no matter what you prefer. Relative truth says, "Each person can decide what he considers fish, and steak. If he says this shoe is a steak, then he has the right to decide that for himself."

Consider the hypocrisy... When you go to pick up your paycheck, your boss better be agreeing with you that 40 hours means 40 hours, and $20 / hour means $20 / hour. You would have a fit! While you may espouse a relative truth worldview, you do not live like that... shame, shame... you hypocrite.

Absolute Truth draws distinctions. Absolute Truth says, "There is a right & wrong, good & bad, beautiful & ugly." It is not up to everyone to decide for himself. God draws the distinctions. The Bible sets the distinctions forth. We may prefer steak, and God may bless us with steak. But if you call a steak "fish," then you are lying. Bill Clinton does not need to define the word "is." He just did not want to tell the truth. He is the poster child for prevailing culture. Today, men like to dress like women, and women want to dress like men. The culture says, "They have the right to choose." God already chose. Some things are easy to see, and others will take more work at trying to figure out what the Bible says. None-the-less, God set forth the standard.

Distinctive Christian Culture embraces God's distinctives. It purposefully sets up culture with obvious distinctions to emphasize what God considers good, beautiful, and right. A submissive woman is beautiful, and a proud woman is ugly. A truthful politician is good, and a lying politician is bad. Abuse in the family stinks, and a loving family smells delicious. What is the culture of your home? What are the sights, sounds, and smells of your Face Book? Does it smell like family unity, or a brothel? Does it look like the beauty of distinctives, or the blurring lines of a dying culture? Do you say you are a Christian, but celebrate the same things the world celebrates... where are your distinctives?