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To the Tribes, Cultures, and Subculture...

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" And they sang a new song, saying, 'You are worthy to take the scroll, and open it's seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God with Your Blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priest to our God and we shall reign on the earth. " Rev. 5:9-10 (NKJV) Culture, sub-cultures, tribes, people groups, what are they really? What is it that makes one group into a culture/tribe, and another into just a subculture? Could it be that part of it was just a set way of doing things or basic assumptions?  How has our modern, global age changed how such things take place and develop? It is basically understood that the meanings of Tribe, Culture, and Subculture are as follows: Tribe:  A. a society or division of society whose members have ancestry, customs, beliefs, or leadership in common. B. a large family, some times an unofficial family C. a group of people who have things in common such as occupation, religion, so
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Into the Shadowlands....

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There is a stirring in my heart that has never died in the 7 years which I served nearly full time on the mission field.  The heart and yearning to return to the underground subculture ministry which I had served in since I was 19, but that door at the time was closed to me due to the type of ministry which we were doing out on the mission field.  But as our time out there ended, the door to return to the underground subculture world re-opened to me. For the 7 years which I was serving in missions, I was praying about what type of subculture ministry I would take part in, should I return to such ministry.  It is from those long hours of prayer and seeking God about this, that the Nightwatch Underground Ministry is born.   Based on the verses: Isaiah  9:2 (NKJV)   "Behold those who walk in darkness have seen a great Light; those who dwell in the valley of the shadow of death upon them a Light has shined." Psalms 119:148 (NKJV) " My eyes are awake through
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