Part 1: The Big Issues facing the Western Church 

1. Local The church has to support culture-making.  Most of the young evangelicals interested in Integrating Their faith with film-making, journalism, corporate finance, etc, are getting Their support and mentoring from the Informal networks or para-church groups. Michael Lindsay's book  Faith in the Halls of Power  shows That many Christians in places of influence in the culture are alienated from the church, Because They get, at best, no church support for living Their faith out in the public spheres, and, at worst , opposition.

1. The opportunity for EXTENSIVE culture-making in the U.S.  In an interview, sociologist Peter Berger That Observed in the U.S. evangelicals are shifting from being Largely a blue-collar constituency to becoming a college educated population.

His question is - will Christians going into the arts, business, government, the media, and film a) assimilate to the culture Existing baseline narratives So They Become In Their views and values he same as other secular professionals and elites, or b) will they seal off and privatize Their faith So THAT from Their Work, Effectively, They do not do Their work in any distinctive way, or c) will they do enough new Christian 'culture-making' In Their fields to change things? (See http://www.virginia.edu/iasc/HHR_Archives/AfterSecularization/8.12PBerger.pdf )