Pastor Scott Veroneau sat down with BibleandPopCulture to discuss the fellowship built around Community Life Church in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He shares the elements that went into creating relevance for their community and local body of believers.

Secular and sacred. Formal words dividing reality into godly or ungodly, Christian or worldly. But is God’s creation so cleanly divided? God’s opening words during Creation, recorded in Genesis, state that everything He created is good.

In its intended state, it’s all good. Not to be naive or unrealistic, there are unredeemed and profane elements of our culture. However, God’s primary vocation is the business of redemption.

Finding Christian expression in a world where killing the enemy is the objective, teammates openly berate you more than the opposition, and all you have to show for it is a skill rank that no one but you cares about.

I’ve been incredibly blessed to have had a circle of women a life stage ahead, who have selflessly poured into me:  Mama Steph, Martha, Fran, and Mary Ann. I observed that they were all Boomers and Jesus Freaks (Boomers who, in one way or another, were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit during the 1960s-1970s). They boldly shared their stories leading up to their salvation and how that era impacted their lives/respective ministries

In developing a blog, my first thought is that I should give you the rules of engagement. As in my class, we should first tackle the why, or as we say in the English/Creative Writing world- the "So what?" Why do this? Why go through the exercise of looking at our culture or a specific aspect of art through the lens of Christianity, history, philosophy, or the basic tenants of aesthetics? Why's it worth my time? Why bother to learn these elements of critical thought and dissect the things I'm coming into contact with? I'm glad you asked.