Set or follow?

Here is something I have often challenged myself about. Are we as youth workers the people who are meant to set trends and a way forward,or are we meant to take some of the elements of a society or culture and use them in our own ways. I often think that the Church should be at the forefront of setting the trends and the way forward, but often see it as the one who follows behind. Can we take what is great from a culture, as the culture changes, and put it into our own culture, and help mold and create a new one.