Overview
This morning we are back with our series called, “How’s Your Posture?”, a mini-series about how we engage culture as people of faith.
This message moves into one of 2 helpful postures.
That of cultivation.
We first find this posture, or job, or role given to humanity way back in the beginning, in our origin story actually.
Scripture
Genesis 2:15-19
Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Questions for Reflection/Discussion
1. The sermon offered seven different sphers of culture that might have different ways of cultivating Kingdom values into the greater culture. Where have you seen good cultivating work being done in these spheres of influence? (Art & Enteratinment, Family, Business, Government, Church, Education, Media)
2. What does cultivating look like for you currently in your corner of the culture world? Which of the spheres of influence do you identify as being involved with?
3. What might be a fresh way you might begin cultivating culture in response to this discussion?
