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103 Entries found for Keyword(s) "contextualization"
Editorial Comment
…contextualization, it was particularly disturbing to read parts of the latest Mission Frontiers on the Web. "Oh, India" features a good bit in it with write ups on the persecution, Graham Staines murder as well as an article by Vishal Mangalwadi. But what was disturbing were the two articles: "Christ-followers…
The Person Not the Method
…contextualization. A quarter of the catalysts participating in this study skipped the question about their ministry approach, which points to likely hesitation on their side to put their approach “into a box.” In addition, more than half of those who answered the question used the “Other” option to describe their…
The Person Not the Method
…contextualization. A quarter of the catalysts participating in this study skipped the question about their ministry approach, which points to likely hesitation on their side to put their approach “into a box.” In addition, more than half of those who answered the question used the “Other” option to describe their…
Decades of Faithful Service
…contextualization. MF—Did you and Art ever serve on a church’s mission board as members? What are some specific ways you lead the team to care for other workers the church partnered with? Dot—At different times, both Art and I were members on a church’s mission board. We were…
Innovation Grounded in the Spirituality of Frontier Mission
…contextualization and social transformation. But all of them have a theological grounding in a holistic understanding of the gospel of Jesus. As Colossians 1:14-20 shows us, it is the saving message of the cross, but because that work was so powerful in its impact on humanity, it also unites all…
The FJCCA Church Planting Movement
…Contextualization3 The FJCCA has contextualized the gospel in terms of at least three Thai cognitive categories. First, the use of the term Prachao (lord or god) by Thai Christians is confusing to Buddhists because it can refer to any number of Hindu deities, local spirits, angels or even a king.…
Bridging Buddhist Christian Worldviews
…contextualization is a crucial issue on the way to bring a breakthrough among Theravada Buddhists. This means explaining the significance of what Christ did on the cross to Buddhists in carefully selected terms that they can understand and are meaningful in their lives. It does not simply mean taking Buddhist…
Church Planting Movements: What Have We Learned?
…contextualization. Foreigners will remain foreign no matter how contextualized they become. Contextualization has an important role to play, but there are even more important things that you can do such as loving the people, training the people, and faithfully casting a passionate vision for seeing them come to Christ. Don’t…
The Sweat Lodge
…contextualization of Christianity within Native cultures. This is not an effort to continue the practice of syncretism, which simply layers Christian practices on top of old traditional ways. It is an effort for Native people to rethink how their old ways can be given new meaning. The form might remain…
Minimizing the Bible?
…contextualization that have emerged in missions. Perhaps there isn’t any connection. But I wonder. The common denominator that I am pondering is the loss of confidence that declaring what the Bible says in the power of the Holy Spirit can create and sustain the church of Christ. This morning I…
That the Natives Might Lift Jesus Up
…contextualization is trying to tear down that stronghold and say that Jesus of the Bible was a tribal man and He died on the cross for native people, so they could be all that God intended them to be. Q: Could you briefly describe contexualization as you have advocated in…
Winds of Renewal
…contextualization, it may be contextualization gone awry. Schwartz says that the seeker-sensitive model of Church as it exists today is "not attractive at all to my generation, not even in the slightest bit." John Piper offered an alternative view at a plenary session of the November '98 meeting of the…
What Color is Jesus? - or - How Can We Present Jesus to a New Culture Without Bringing Our Own?
…contextualization, this was basically to make Jesus acceptable to them by dressing him up to look like them. Add a little makeup, change the clothes, use a different language, and voila, a Jesus they certainly couldn’t refuse. But with time, the makeup I applied began to run. The clothes wore…
Editorial Comment
…contextualization. In fact it was so difficult merely to throw out one's own culture that many of the flower children settled for American Indian patterns of dress and spirituality. The '60s were an astounding period of culture rejection accompanied by a wholesale, country-wide trek into the wilderness of world religions…
200 Unreached Peoples In Our Midst: A Legacy of Tears—A Future of Hope
…Contextualization The key to developing a culturally-relevant church then is contextualization. The church must fit the culture. The Bible does not say anything about such things as type of building, patterns of sitting, platforms that elevate the preacher above the congregation. These are cultural patterns. One missionary to the Navajos…
Training to Go Now!
…contextualization" which calls missionaries to be far more sensitive to the need to help these churches identify with "today" and "tomorrow", not only with the real issue they are currently confronting, but with the probable shape of things to come. The tragedy today is that some of the ardent enthusiasts…
From New York City to Rio de Janeiro
…Contextualization in a Jewish Context In this third decade of the 21st century, the usefulness of technology in world missions is beyond doubt. We already have seen fruit from resources like online Bibles, videos, and the ability to chat with people around the globe. As with any tool, context matters.…
Midwife Missionary or Missionary Midwife?
…contextualization. In people movements, the insiders further the movement. Likewise, in improving healthcare structure and wellbeing, the insiders continue and grow the movement. Just as we pray for People of Peace who will be integral to moving a UPG toward Christ, we need to pray for the community midwives of…
What’s in Your Box?
…contextualization of the gospel is essential for a movement to take place—even in non-Insider Movements. In the early days of the modern protestant missionary movement, mission workers thought it was a good idea to bring their culture along with the gospel. The mission worker’s church back home became the model…
All Things Are Yours
…contextualization in terms of possessio rather than of conversion and repudiation seems a helpful first step towards affirming in a fresh way the multi- cultural nature of the gospel and of its call for all peoples to surrender to Christ within their own heritage. “The nations will walk by the…