Cultural Christianity is not equal to Biblical Christianity. Every culture has certain modes of operation and if we are born into that culture we do not recognize in ourselves how cultural we actually are. When we fully enter, not just visit or vacation, in another culture, but actually live there, we realize how cultural we are and how cultural they are.

When I moved to Malaysia in August 2004, the first three months, was vacation, it was fun, adventurous, everything was new, I loved it. So when God spoke to me to move there, I came back to the US in December 2004, packed my room, notified my housemates and off I went to live in another country.

After living there for nine years, I realized many things about myself and about the nation of Malaysia. My frustrations came from culture clashes, for America did not fit into Malaysian culture and Malaysian culture was not conforming to American me. One of us had to submit, if we were going to live peacefully together.

I chose to live in their culture, so I surrendered to the way they did things, rather than fighting with them, because they were not American in their return policies, offering of water for free while eating out, or whatever other cultural challenge I faced.

The same is true in Biblical Christianity. We as believers, no matter our cultural background, have tried to get Biblical culture to fit into our culture and it will not conform to us, we must submit to it, for us to live peacefully in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

Proverbs 3:11 says, “My child, when the Lord God speaks to you, never take his words lightly!”

When we submit to God’s culture, kingdom and Word, we will find ourselves loving life everyday, living abundantly and forgiving quickly and freely. Friends, your battle is not demonic, it is cultural and until you submit to Biblical culture, your cultural Christianity will try to force God’s hand and He is not changing, for He is God and we are not. Conform to Him it is so peaceful. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org