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The Church’s Worship Helping The Culture

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Great quote from Marva Dawn’s Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down:

“Christians can help society recognize the danger of its loss of reasonable discourse in the all-consuming ubiquity of entertainment.  By offering worship that educates instead of entertains, that uplifts and transforms through the renewing of the mind (Romans 12:2), the Church exposes the meaninglessness of our present culture.” (p.72)

Red Cup?

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A big issue that emerged this past weekend had to do with the lack of Christmas promotion on Starbucks red Christmas cups.  Here’s a link I found most helpful:

When We Love Outrage More Than People by Ed Stetzer

A quote:

Folks, we really need to calm down. If you’ve posted an outraged Facebook update, take it down.
Starbucks cups are red because of the Christmas season. Starbucks is not persecuting you. Starbucks may be attempting to respect those who don’t celebrate Christmas—and that’s OK. That’s their choice. They’re a business that exists to serve all customers without preference, regardless of what winter holidays they do or do not celebrate. If they choose to do that by means of a plain, red cup, that’s their call.
I’m not going to opine on all the motives behind a solo red cup, but, perhaps this is because our society is becoming more secular (even though Starbucks has other Christmas-themed products available). If it is, we still need to learn to live together in our society.