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If we’re going to be really engaged in culture, we need first of all to be engaged with the
community of the believers. We can’t do it by ourselves, and I think the whole New
Testament and Old Testament teach that. We need each other. If a person is really engaged
on Sundays in their church and in their class, it will work out all week long. They’ll
want to be a real Christian. I don’t think it’s a secret or that’s not something
I’ve just come up with. “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together,” says
the author of Hebrews. Paul is so big on the body of Christ, the different gifts. We need
the community; we need each other. I really think the hearing of the Gospel and taking
it in day by day, that clear simple understanding of Jesus Christ and his finished work and
his resurrection will do more to produce good works, and I think the reformation proved
that, than all the guns at the head or 20 techniques on being a missional Christian
and how to be a successful Christian layperson.