When Culture, Tradition, and Scripture Collide We are living in a day, and even more importantly, in a culture that has drifted far from biblical truth and the reality of church as defined in the New Testament. I have watched this happen with great concern but with the clear realization that we are fighting an uphill battle, which may not be possible to win short of a divine intervention of God. In the West, as stated in the introduction, we tend to look at Scripture through the lens of culture,