CULTURE IS IMPORTANT. The culture in which we live teaches us how to behave and how to think. We learn what is right and wrong, good and bad, by living in a culture that defines these things. We learn our moral intuitions, beliefs, convictions—whatever term you want to use—in community, in relationship with others. Culture socializes us into what is considered proper behavior. For Christians, this is true in our churches as well as in society at large. Scot McKnight