of God’s hand at work in the culture. Some aspects of culture need to be rejected or cleansed first. Other aspects of culture need to be modified and stretched across some wood. Just as important, though, some aspects of culture need to be accepted and utilized as the starting point for painting God’s glory in culture. If the artist did not clean the sack and blacken the writing on it, words and colors would be blended, resulting in confusing images on the canvas. Syncretism occurs when there is
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