The Culture Care RDU (CCRDU) community is grounded in Christ-centered kingdom practices that cultivate a dynamic pursuit of culture-making in our local neighborhood. CCRDU's works to mobilize courageous, wise, and generous catalysts who engage our broken and desecrated landscapes in the RDU/Triangle through creative, hospitable conversations and excellent works. Q1. “How do you genuinely display the true and faithful presence of Christ in contemporary culture?”
As we participate in this question, our blind spots in ministry and prejudice are unveiled. People come to deeper levels of faith through generative, grace-filled encounters even though many churches and ministries focus primarily on debate or preaching as technique rather than discipleship. True discipleship is an intentional and dynamic (lifestyle) that works in and towards collaborative projects within the local church and fully engaged in community care. If we are to be faithful to make disciples, we need to expand our vision of cultural care. The arts provide a way to display a fuller and faithful account of personal and community worship through beauty and creative excellence. The How of CCRDU:
Art, ethics (justice and righteousness) and theology have a dynamic and indivisible relationship. While they have (to some degree) different tactics, they serve one another by offering unique gifts and insights like many members in one body. In my research and work with local churches towards Christ-becoming character through imaginative discipleship, we explore ways to understand and practice faithful presence through the arts and contemporary issues in our community, generate re-humanizing dialogue and culture formation.
