I Don't Need a Goofy Christian Atone-Mint: A biblical perspective on culture and heaven

It is common for Evangelicals in our day to have a sort of demonized view of culture. 'If it ain't Christian, it ain't worthy of us.' This sort of a theology has created the little Christian bubbles that so many have isolated themselves in. We are reaping not only the fruits of having left the culture to the Devil, but the almost bizarre copy-cat cultural trends that sees us make virtually everything that our secular counterparts make (except usually of worse quality) only ours is 'holy' because we have slapped a Christian label onto it.

This passage is striking because of what it tells us about the future. Tyre, the marketplace of the world, had become a harlot with the world. Yet, God is going to take her gains and her wages and keep them for the last day to be set apart for His use and His people. This has radical implications for how Christians ought to be living and what we ought to be doing with our time here and now. If we want to 'reclaim the culture,' then it is time that we recover a biblical view of the Christian's place in it. And we can do this only if we understand our final destination and its relationship to the world we now live in. This sermon attempts to get at some of these ideas.