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The church culture and growth

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There are three basic forms of the culture which affect the Christian church. First of all among them is the culture of the church itself. The culture of the Christian church is through which the church works. It may not be the values which are scripted in the code of conduct of the Christian church or the principle book but they are those by which the Christian church actually works. These are the ethics of the church and the principles in which the church firmly believes and acts on.

Similarly, the other culture is the culture of the denomination. By this culture, we imply the culture of the next or the other subsequent generations. It is not relevant in the event if the Christian church is not even a generation old. For instance, if the Christian church is many generation old, the principles on which the Christian church is formed can be different from the principles and the culture on which the church is working currently. It is too more likely and significant because of the actuality that with the changing culture and the society, the Christian church has to alter its own culture to be tune with the times.

The culture of the community or the society, in which the Christian church works, is again an vital factor on which the church works. The local culture of the community is the one which constantly intrigues with the culture of Christian church and both of them affect each other's culture in a more subtle but definite and ever-lasting way.

The real value of the congregations and the teachings through which the Christian church desires to spread its position and achieve something comes under the culture of the Christian church. The Christian church culture is different for every Christian church and there may be the case that even the pastor is not capable to elaborate on it clearly but that is how it is. It is there and in practice, at times intentionally and most of the time unintentionally. It is cause of the fact that when a person comes in contact with the Christian church, his culture gets mixed with the culture of the organization and then later on with the culture of the staff and the clergy. Hence, a new and a more refined and distinct culture came into being.

Similarly, in most of such cases the pastor might not even recognize and offends the culture of the church. It is because of the fact that the culture which the pastor perceives as the culture of the Christian church and works on is not the genuine culture of the church but the result of the mixing up of various cultures. In such a instance, the pastor might even be standing in an amazement and wonders what he has done incorrect and what wants to be done to redo it. In most of the cases, someone from inside the Christian church who is observing all this comes to the rescue and again impacts the culture of the person which might again result in some changes.

These illustrations are actually only a small amount of what actually happens.

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