The document discusses the relationship between culture and spirituality, arguing that considering them alone can yield negative results but together they provide a fuller understanding. It asserts that both focusing solely on culture or solely on spiritual doctrines breaks the first commandment to worship God alone. The document suggests a compound rather than mixed approach, bringing together biblical, theological, historical, and cultural frameworks to gain perspective.

1. Defining incarnation
Concrete Concept
• Culture • Spiritual domain
• Tangible • Intangible
• Artifacts • Abstract disciplines

2. Consider that what we commonly refer to as culture
is the working out of what’s in the soul in a
communal setting (Woodward, 2009)
See also Ravi Zacharias (2004); Eastern Thought: The
Chimera of Pantheism; To Everyone an Answer; Eds:
Beckwith, Craig, and Moreland

4. Cultural Considerations
• If considered alone
Positive Result
• Relevant
Negative Result
• No revelation
• Vanity of vanities

5. Spiritual
• If considered alone
Positive Result
• Doctrinally Sound (Exegesis)
Negative Result
• Inaccessible
• No meaningful diagnosis and prescription
(Application)

6. Both groups are guilty of breaking the
first commandment
WHY

7. Compound
Rather Than
MIXTURE

8. Worship Sculptor Tools
Biblical Foundation
Theological Foundation
Historical Foundation
Cultural Observation Frameworks
Aesthetic Evaluation Frameworks