Last week’s post on the difference between being culturally relevant or contextually real garnered a lot of commentary on social media.
There were a few who responded with the big meh (some literally writing meh in their response).
Here’s the main issue the meh-ers had with my post. They felt like the difference between the terms culturally relevant and contextually real was merely a matter of semantics.
So is it semantics? Yes. And no.
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When you have an open market, not
just in finance, but in religion, the size of the crowd brings an air of credibility.
We debate what Jesus would say or do if he was walking the earth today. But no honest reader of the Bible can doubt he would be with people.
Celebrity is dangerous. But it’s also very appealing. This is the toxic combination that Katelyn Beaty addresses so well.
