1. GARDEN: CREATE & CULTIVATE

3. WHAT IS CULTURE? God at Work Creation at Work Culture at Work “Culture is what human beings make of the world.”- Ken Myers

7. WHAT IS CULTURE? God at Work Creation at Work Culture at Work “There is no such thing as ‘the culture’ and any attempt to talk about ‘the culture’ is misled and misleading.”- Andy Crouch

8. WHAT IS CULTURE? “And every created thing which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, ‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.’” - Revelation 5:13

9. WHAT IS CULTURE? God at Work Creation at Work Culture at Work “Culture, in all its best forms, is God’s gift.”

10. WHAT IS CULTURE? “God’s first and best gift to humanity is culture, the realm in which human beings themselves will be the cultivators and creators, ultimately contributing to the cosmic purposes of the Cultivator and the Creator of the natural world.” - Andy Crouch

11. WHAT IT DOES TO US It is Inherited “Every cultural good builds on and incorporates elements of culture that have come before – cultural creativity never starts from scratch. When we are born, we enter a natural world and a cultural world.”

12. WHAT IT DOES TO US? It is Inherited It is Powerful

16. WHAT WE DO TO IT Become Culture Makers (Not Critics) “Cultural change will only happen when something new displaces, to some extent, existing culture in a very tangible way.” - Andy Crouch

17. WHAT WE DO TO IT Become Culture Makers (Not Critics) Stop Making Sacred & Secular Divide “It is not what man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.” - A.W. Tozer

18. WHAT WE DO TO IT Become Culture Makers (Not Critics) Stop Making Sacred & Secular Divide Glorify God in Your Whole Life “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” - 1 Corinthians 10:31

20. GARDEN: CREATE & CULTIVATE