At Adult VBS, we did something a little different. We had a discussion about the church and culture. We asked ourselves several questions: What is culture? What role does the church play in culture? How should individual Christians be involved in culture? We had Rev. Jim Beerley, Pastor of the International Church in Monaco (CrossWorld) with us to share as well. Then, the last two evenings we had our meetings at the Factory where we hoped we could interact with parents of Factory Teens. We invited Dan Karlow of Youth Advocate Programs to speak.

The one thing we concluded was that we are all very comfortable in “our culture or sub-culture” but we need to constantly move into places and other sub-cultures where we are Uncomfortable. We asked ourselves what that would look like? I want to ask it again…what would it look like for you to engage an area of our culture that you are not comfortable engaging. For example, a local pastor has decided that he should hang out in a local bar. He goes with an Elder or two from his church to build relationships with folks who come by. What would stretch your comfort zone and help you engage the culture out there that needs Christians ??

Pastor Ric