How often have we heard that ministry is a service unto God? How is it that we then claim that ministry is a matter of being a servant to the people? Any student of human nature will tell you that, inexorably humans will fail. They will divert from God’s plan. Is it possible to serve a need of the people that is in direct misalignment with ministering unto the Lord? Is there a juste milieu?
Make no mistake about it – there is certainly a contingent of those (believers perhaps) who believe that this diversion from alignment with God is due, in part, to cultural stimuli.
I’m not sure that’s necessarily the case, as humans seem perfectly adroit at messing up their lives without the help of said stimuli. Of course, I don’t think that any determination can be made without further researching the impact that the culture has on people of faith. I am of the belief that cultural stimuli are, in fact, manifestations of weaknesses already present within our hearts and minds; as such, they act as the perfect siren-song of compromise as they are temptations birthed from inside of us and then displayed back to us via modern day media, the global acceptance of various abominations, etc.