So I'm reading a couple books right now. Mark Driscolls  The Radical Reformission and Dan Kimballs They Like Jesus but Not The Church. In the Radical Reformission Driscoll points to the fact that its simply about Jesus and his call to us to:
    1. Love God.
    2. Love our neighbor 
    3. Love the church. ( the people, not the building or programs or what it can do for you, and by the way thats "the" church... all of it)

He goes on to talk about how western Christianity fails to fulfill this call because various Christian traditions are only faithful to one or two of  the counts.

• Gospel +Culture-Church= parachurch
• Culture+Church-Gospel=Liberalism
• Church+Gospel-Culture=Fundamentalism.

I say all of that to get to this... I'm reading in chapter 2 and 3 about How Billy Graham and the guy who wrote the original 4 spiritual law tracks ( his name slips me ) wrote for the people they were trying to reach. For instance Mr Graham spoke a lot about the peace of God due to just coming out of the wars. The 4 spiritual laws came out of a science and physics driven culture.... so in regards to the culture we currently live in Mark Driscoll poses  an interesting  set of   questions  at the end of one of the chapters. He talks about the 4 Gospels and how the writers wrote for a specific culture and in a way that the people would understand. He has a great breakdown in the book of how that fleshes out.

The questions are
If you were to write a Gospel for the people in your culture.

• Where would you start?
• How would you explain sin?
• How would you explain Jesus
• What in Jesus's life would they most resonate with. What would they struggle with?

This begs me to ask a lot of questions. Do I really know who the people in my culture are ? How do they think? What do they do? Why do they do it? How do I tell them about Christs Love in a way they understand, not in the way I understand (and Im not talking about watering it down or changing truth) . How am I going to get to know these people  and love them... where they are?.... hmmm let the perculating begin.