Convicted By Culture

Merely being convicted or swayed to change by the culture around us is not biblical grounds for repentance.   #daybydaylw   Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org!   ~~~   Convicted by culture/crowds—keeping up with the trends/no longer acceptable culturally. This is called peer pressure, but it is really a type of repentance. We stop doing something because it is no longer culturally acceptable, whether it be the culture at large, or our own little group of friends that we run with. So for instance, when you go off to college now, one of the first things they will do at orientation is ask for your pronouns. And if you refuse to call other people by their “preferred pronouns” but instead call them by the biologically appropriate pronoun, then you will be deemed, intolerant and disrespectful. Thus, peer pressure is being put on you to change your mind. And if you do, then you are repenting, you are changing your mind, changing your direction, because of being convicted by culture. This type of repentance happens all the time in a thousand different ways. But being convicted by culture doesn’t cut it when it comes to Biblical repentance. Something greater is needed. But it is worth asking, is it not, if my repentance has been motivated in the past by the crowds instead of by the King.