Engaging the world

I recently came to a realization, often times in the christian faith we have rejected the world around us. After all, is this not what we are taught to do? I can think of many occasions where I was told not to listen to “secular” music or not to watch “secular” movies. The truth behind the matter is, there is not such thing as “christian” music or “secular” music. There are Christians who write and sing music. In pondering this I thought about something, what everyone should think about, I thought about Jesus. He never turned his back on the world, he never set himself aside form the culture. Jesus came to reclaim the culture of the world, not reject it. Everyday you hear Christians talk about how they are going to change the world! Yet, in that same sentence they reject the world? How does this make any sense at all? How are we to reject the world, but then we expect to change it. Jesus called us to spread unconditional love and acceptance to the world.