Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Mt 23:27-28 NRSV)
This passage has always been interesting to me. It's part of the 7 woes Jesus describes to the "religious" of the day. I've acted as a Pharisee myself from time to time. Odds are, my local church contains people with Pharisaical attitudes. Yours? The same.
Ed Stetzer has a great interview here with Kary Oberbrunner in regards to Christianity and Culture. It's worth checking out. Let me know what you think.
What's the role of the Church within culture?
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