The document discusses various ways of engaging with culture including condemnation, consumption, critique, and creation. It argues that culture is not optional and we are called to work in and care for the cultural garden. Some reasons for an unhealthy avoidance of culture are discussed, such as dualistic thinking and misunderstandings of spirituality. The need for a biblical understanding of culture and worldview is presented. Questions about human identity, purpose, sin, and redemption are part of how stories and symbols shape culture. Changing culture is likened to eating an elephant, one bite at a time.

2. Glutton or anorexic? How do we respond to or view culture?

4. What is culture?

6. Cultivation 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Cultivation

7. Condemn it Consume it Critique it Copy it How do we respond to culture? The anorexic approach The glutton’s approach Create it

8. Culture is not optional! We are part of it We cannot escape it It’s what we are called to do - to work and keep the garden

9. Reasons for cultural anorexia Dualism Confusing structure and direction A misunderstanding of spirituality

10. Reasons for cultural anorexia

11. Reasons for cultural anorexia Sacred Secular

12. Reasons for cultural anorexia Sacred Secular

13. Reasons for cultural anorexia Secular Sacred

14. "There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. "

15. The need for a biblical understanding of spirituality

16. Culture - in all its forms Worldview Religion

17. Story QUESTIONS PRAXIS Symbols Who are we? Why are we here? What is wrong? What is the remedy?

18. Farmer Bell Who are we? Why are we here? What is wrong? What is the remedy?

19. Farmer Bell A go ahead farmer is Jonathon Bell Who works his farm and he works it well He doesn't hold much with the good old days. In modern times use modern ways. Electric mechanical all that is new Which does the work that men used to do. He swears by it all and he proves it too On his modern mechanical farm.

20. Farmer Bell Who are we? Why are we here? What is wrong? What is the remedy?

21. Windy Miller Who are we? Why are we here? What is wrong? What is the remedy?

23. Brian Walsh and Richard Middleton Transforming Vision Al Wolters Creation Regained

24. How do you eat an elephant? One bit at a time How do we change culture?