Sasaki, Joni Y., and Heejung S. Kim.

"At The Intersection Of Culture And Religion: A Cultural Analysis Of Religion's Implications For Secondary Control And Social Affiliation." Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology 101.2 (2011): 401-414. PsycARTICLES. Web. 25 Nov. 2012.

culture impacts the way people use religion in daily life to cope with naturally occurring stressors

Cohen, Adam B., and Peter C. Hill. "Religion As Culture: Religious Individualism And Collectivism Among American Catholics, Jews, And Protestants." Journal Of Personality 75.4 (2007): 709-742. Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 27 Nov. 2012.

Furthermore, we propose that, in collectivistic religious cultures, peoples religious and spiritual behavior may be tightly regulated through ritual and tradition.

Cole, Steven J. "Cultural Religion vs. Saving Faith." Flagstaff Christian Fellowship. Flagstaff. Feb. 2004. Web. 1 Dec. 2012.

All who are associated with the church must beware of the cultural religion that falls short of personally experiencing Gods salvation.

I should reverse his order and say that they live in it here and now by faith, but what they know here is not the full story. That will be revealed in the hereafter. There is a sense in 6 which to enter Christian salvation means to cease from ones works and rest securely on what Christ has done.

To sum up, when the author talks of entering Gods rest, he is not talking about believers learning to trust God in trials so that they experience His inner peace. Rather, he is talking about Gods salvation under this imagery of rest, in line with the Old Testament. He is warning his readers about the danger of being associated with Gods people but missing His salvation because they do not respond in faith to the message.

Cultural religion (general belief) will save no one; to be saved, we must have personal faith in Jesus Christ.

It is not enough to grow up in the church and have a general belief in God and in Jesus Christ. Perhaps youve heard the gospel all your life, and intellectually, you believe in Jesus and that He died for your sins. But intellectual belief is not enough! Saving faith 7 trusts personally in the shed blood of Jesus as the only payment for my sins. Saving faith believes that God will be gracious to me in the judgment because my sins are covered by Jesus blood and that His righteousness has been imputed to me according to Gods promise.

People today are encouraged to invite Jesus into their hearts and then are told that they have eternal life and will never lose it. They are not told that they need to repent of their sins. They are not told that God must change their hearts. Polls show that there is virtually no difference today between the way that evangelicals think and live and the way the rest of the population thinks and lives!

Biblical Teaching: Destroying Behavior.. By Mark Driscoll. 2008. Mars Hill Church Seattle. Web. 1 Dec. 2012.

Heart transformation is the root of what we do..its not just about making rules and obeying them so you have better behavior, its having a changed heart so you can live a whole new life

Platt, David. Radical. Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2010. 33. Print.

Mountain analogy, all religions are not alike

Riley, Jennifer. "Christianity Is Not a Cultural Religion." The Christian Post 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 1 Dec. 2012.

While most religions in the world are closely tied to a culture, Christianity is above the culture, asserted Veith during the 2011 Online Apologetics Conference on Friday. Christianity, in contrast, is for all cultures. This is a theme of the New Testament, St. Johns vision of the redeemed in Revelation 7, he said. Christianity is for every tribe, every nation, every language, every time, for every culture. Thats really quite unique from other religions because Christ died for the sins of the world. Sometimes they dont want to give us a hearing because we are carrying so much cultural baggage right now that our emphasis often times is on the cultural issues rather than the spiritual issues that are really at the heart of our faith. [We have to] be very careful not to lose that gospel to political or cultural issues, as valuable as they might be, warned Veith. The culture is very significant but not ultimate, and we must not confuse the two.