In the identificational model of relating to culture, the key word is accommodation - to live both in the kingdom of God and in the world. Christians are, therefore, to live both in the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world. The weaknesses of this model are glaring. Its principal danger is that uncritical identification with the culture can lull the Christian into complacency, into a blindness towards the influence of evil in the culture's institutions. Anyone involved in politics knows that it is the greatest test of one's faith.
Evil is always present and the pressure to compromise one's convictions is ever present.
This model can also lead to an uncritical acceptance of prevailing cultural practices and attitudes. The more Christians identify with the culture's institutions, the more the institutions influence the Christian. Finally, then, this model can lead to a loss of the Church's prophetic stance. The Church can almost be married to the culture. One disastrous example is the Church in Nazi Germany.