The faithful church critiques its cultural environment, particularly the dominant culture; affirms those aspects of culture that do not contradict (their) gospel; constantly tries to communicate (it) in the surrounding cultures; and is cultivating and forming the culture of (the) new community; a culture not of the world.

Darrell L. Guder, ed., Missional Church: a Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 1998), 114-115.

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