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103 Entries found for Keyword(s) "contextualization"
The Future of Frontier Missions and the World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition
…contextualization efforts of newer missionary-sending churches; for example, are Korean churches exporting Korean Christianity, or are they learning from the mistakes of the West? Christians from all over the world are taking up the call to go to peoples where the gospel is not known. Authentic, global partnerships in mission…
Zealous for the Things that Matter
…Contextualization levels also divide us. Some are comfortable with a C4 or C5 approach. Others prefer C3.1 “Do you think it’s okay to redeem this practice? Or use this name for Jesus or God? I don’t!” we declare. Others are adamant that the only way to reach their target people will…
24:14 Goal: Movement engagements in every unreached people and place by 2025 (86 months)
…contextualization and cross-cultural expectations. Theology: Understanding basics of Theology of Salvation, Overview of Scripture, Missions, Personal Calling, Suffering and core Christian Doctrines CPM Training: Understands the basic DNA of movements and their biblical justification using one of the common movement training templates (Transition Points of Movement, DMM, T4T, Four Fields,…
Further Reflections: No Shortcuts to Jesus
…contextualization is “Christian code too often for cosmetically enhanced imitation of our assumed essentials.” So, after hearing another example like this today, I wondered: what is it that seems to draw people to Jesus? I realize it is different in different situations, but I wondered if there is a pattern.…
Judging a Book by Its Cover
…contextualization for syncretism or compromise. While there are many examples of syncretism and compromise, we must avoid quick and emotional judgments based on misunderstanding and partial information, which have unjustly crippled the Lord’s weary faithful on the front lines of the mission field. Throughout history, this kind of tension has…
Faith - With Evaluation and Change - Yields Much Fruit
…contextualization, to leadership development and more. If you are not yet getting the kind of results that match the dream God has put in your heart for a movement, don’t despair. Evaluate. Be courageous. Be “hopeless” enough to do something different. Experiment and try something new. Most of all, go…
Blocking Truth
…contextualization. Recently, a good friend of mine (who is mobilizing for the Unreached in another country) conducted an informal survey. He was preparing to share with a youth group, and his quick, informal, non-scientific survey of 100 of his mission-connected friends had just one question. We could only give one…
40 Years of Unreached Peoples Effort
…contextualization, concerns over funding and dependency, and a focus on movements with obedience-based discipleship at their core, to name a few. These forty years have been dynamic. 2. Hundreds of once-unreached people groups have been reached. The exact number is impossible to know because changes in the way people groups…
Baptism in Muslim Ministry
…contextualization and identity. Are these new ones in Christ now “Christians?” Or are they “Muslim followers of Jesus?” Something else? They will likely make these determinations for themselves, and they will figure out how it shapes for them the step of baptism. These are good discussions to have. About the…
God Desires His House of Prayer
…contextualization strategy. I believe God’s desire for this generation is to raise up worship and prayer in every place of the earth among all peoples and nations (Psalm 57). It is the prayer movement of adoration and devotion to Jesus that will impact all other prayer movements on the earth—…
Deconstruct and Recalibrate
…contextualization is next, with an intriguing exploration of how important it is to use terminology that Buddhists understand when communicating the good news. Then in Old Wineskins? I tell about my time as a church planter, focusing on the relationship between new believers and the established church. The principles described…
A Case for Contextualized, Artistic Communication in Mission
…contextualization of artistic forms of communication, including music but also extending to all other art forms. One of the stubborn obstacles to effective mission today is that we are not consistently communicating the gospel in ways that allow it to thrive in local soil. Through foundational articles, stories from the…
Indigenized Christian Worship in India
…Contextualization is not compromise, nor conforming to the image of the world, but rather allowing the gospel to become incarnate in the existing culture in faithfulness to the Bible.”14 Marva Dawn offers a good criterion to evaluate our attempts for indigenization: “We make use of the cultural forms, new and…
Making Jesus Famous Among the Nations
…contextualization of the gospel message leads to lasting fruit as the community embraces the message within their cultural context. With Internet, mobile devices, and social networking usage exploding across the unreached world, we have an ideal platform for transmitting tailor-made indigenous audio-visual media to communicate the gospel. Through these inexpensive,…
God with Us.
…contextualization, we co-labor with local partners to train pastors and plant churches that reproduce disciples using local oral content, recorded and distributed by oral culture leaders. Today, our partnerships spread the Word of God throughout unreached oral communities around the world, penetrating darkness with the Light of the world. God…
Kingdom Kernels
…contextualization, but with much criticism for my approaches. This won’t stop me because I long for the Lord’s return and want to equip every new believer to join us as ministers of reconciliation. Our multi-cultural polytheistic people groups have never heard of Jesus and our team is the first to…
From the Editor
…contextualization principles to make the gospel indigenous to the Indonesian culture rather than imposing a foreign culture upon the new Muslim believers. As Dr. Garrison reports on page 7, Sadrach “then gathered converts into contextualized, indigenous mesjids of Javanese Christian communities called Kristen Jawa, rather than extracting them into the…
From Conflict To People Group Focus
…contextualization. Also in 1976, at Fuller Seminary, a proposal for a new consultation was drafted by me and Bob Douglas which I presented to the North American Lausanne Committee meeting in Chicago. This was accepted and World Vision was committed to funding it. Out of this proposal a mini-consultation was…
What Have We Learned From 200 Years of Doing Missions?
…Contextualization and “insider movements”—new forms of the church. The recognition of the values that exist in every culture. • The need for partnerships and greater cooperation. • The need for new methods of selecting and training leaders for the growing churches, especially among the poor. This should include both institutional…
Giving and Receiving Strategies
…contextualization, the outsider may indeed have some helpful insights. At times, the insider, who has been saved out of their majority non-Christian context, cannot easily see how the gospel might spread in their midst. Depending on how they were reached, they may have only been exposed to a narrow approach…