For now I've decided to go ahead and get at least some Catalyst content from afar via Catalystbackstage.com (thank you, Anne Jackson). Here's some content to get you thinking, notes someone else took from a session with Andy Crouch.
We use the word impact as a good thing -but culture thinks "impact" is something to be defended....cultures are designed to provide a way to survive impacts that nature throws our way. Culture naturally wards of impact. Think tornadoes or meteors.
So why do we want to impact our culture?
Did Jesus IMPACT?
If you look at the most culturally significant event in humanity - Jesus' resurrection - nothing really changed. Now hold on...there was an earthquake and some stuff but it is nothing really recorded in history.
Life continued. And a small group of believers began meeting.
300 years later, half of the Roman Empire is Christian (mainly because of politics).
Jesus doesn't describe "making an impact" in a big, flashy way. He talks about the kingdom of God like a mustard seed - smallest of all. But someone plants it and it grows into a tree. Birds nest in its branches.
That's not a metaphor of impact, it's a metaphor of cultivation.
Best changes take time. The most influential thing we will do in culture we will never see. But those things will bring durable, lasting change...
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