March 15, 2016 ·

Plundering the Egyptians

“This is our calling. This is our duty. Worship God, all you cultures. Worship God, all you who live in your culture. Look around you. How do you fit into the puzzle? How do you use your gifts that were given to you to return to the giver, to the foregiver? That's what you've been forgiven. … Why? Just to feel better about yourself? No, to worship God. That's why I'm saying it. God is calling us on this Exodus quest. He's calling us from cultural enslavement to cultural engagement. Because I have to say, I think the world has a whole system of using art to enslave us, to enslave our minds, to keep us entertained, to sit on our couches. There's a whole language to the culture that you can actually be part of enslavement. … The answer is to take, plunder those tools which are once making us oppressed and feeling mentally enslaved, and then taking it and using it to cultural engagement for God, to worship God.”