Andy Crouch on Creating Culture

In this video, Andy Crouch says,

“Our posture is our learned but unconscious default position, our natural stance. It is the position our body assumes when we aren’t paying attention, the basic attitude we carry through life. Appropriate gestures toward particular cultural goods have become, over time, part of the posture Christians unconsciously adopt toward every cultural situation and setting.”

These necessary gestures that become various postures are:

• Condemning Culture
• Critiquing Culture
• Copying Culture, and
• Consuming Culture.

What Crouch suggests is that we use these as “gestures” at appropriate times, but that the call of the Christian (according to Genesis 1:28ff and Genesis 2:15) is to Create Culture.

Source: jubilee.tv, 2009 Jubilee Conference