A MOVEMENT ON A MISSION
CULTURE SHIFTERS®
ABOUT
CULTURE SHIFTERS®
We embrace and acknowledge the work of Marketplace Ministers who represent the Good News in personhood and presence as well as influence culture in unique ways. You can find Marketplace Ministers leading corporations, writing best sellers, serving their communities, and performing on the world’s brightest stages and screens. They are everyday people who are followers of Christ allowing their faith to directly influence their life.
As a project launched by Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, “This movement will produce the next generation of best-selling authors, psalmists, songwriters, current and emerging leaders in both the church and the community with an impact for generations to come,” explains Bishop K. Edwin Bryant, the Chief Operating Officer for the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship and leader of theCulture Shifters®.
PURPOSE
Church is more than just a building.
It is our culture repositioned with God at the center. From inside out, to outside in we affirm that it all works together to express the glory of God. Celebrating this mix is at the core of the Culture Shifters® philosophy. It is a place for those who may be discovering their faith as well as for those who are grounded and fully integrated in faith. We discuss, we debate, we discover, we are definitive, but above all WE ARE DIVINE in our being and committed to our DESTINY in ministry.
Culture Shifters® promotes marketplace ministry by giving believers access to professionals and best-in-class practices that can change the course of individual and institutional futures. We support a diverse population by staying true to faith fundamentals based on the 8 Cultural Mountains, established in 1975 by Bill Bright (Campus Crusade) and Loren Cunningham (Youth With a Mission).
FAITH FUNDAMENTALS
8 CULTURAL MOUNTAINS
Religion/Spirituality
We define religion/spirituality as belief in a superior being. It is the Church’s responsibility to reach people with love and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and expand ministerial efforts both nationally and internationally.
Family
A family united in the love of God expresses His true desire for the relationships between men, women and children.
Business
It is the Lord’s will to make His people prosperous and that He desires for His Church to use its wealth to finance the work of Kingdom expansion.
Education
Learning should reflect the truth about God and humanity so that the truth can make us free, by seeking and promoting the true meaning of life through education.
Government & Policy
A nation’s moral standards are dependent on those exhibited by its leaders and/or political party.
Media
Those who are gifted for and called to do this type of work must be willing to report righteously and truthfully in secular society.
Arts & Entertainment
Powerful righteous men and women who are not afraid to take their God-given talent into the arts and entertainment arenas.
Philanthropy
Giving and social action puts God-centered change in the hands of ordinary citizens.
THE TIME IS NOW
WHY?
It is time to galvanize so that marketplace ministry is given the opportunity to be fully understood, alliances can be formed, and transformation can occur. FGBCF, through its extensive member fellowships, is uniquely positioned to be the bridge for the African American marketplace influencers – our Culture Shifters®.