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Bible Translations for Muslim Readers
Tags: bible, bible translation, contextualization, muslim
What wisdom is needed in producing Bible translations for Muslims? An article recently published in Christianity Today by Collin Hansen, entitled "The Son and the Crescent" (February, 2011): 19-23...
Learning From Our Mistakes
Tags: contextualization, missionary, syncretism
What happens when missionaries teach that the only way of salvation is for a people to completely reject their own culture and accept the “Christian” culture of the missionary? What is the result...
Disruptive Missiology Part 3
In Communication, Context is Everything
Tags: contextualization, missiology
When I was in grade school, one of my teachers asked me if I was a Christian. It was the end of the school year as I recall, and in my excited attempt to witness at this apparent “open door” I...
When Our Message Falls Flat
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We all like things a certain way – from how we like our eggs cooked, to serious things like how we communicate Jesus. Our backgrounds and experiences shape our preferences of church, emphases in...
Minimizing the Bible?
Seeker-Driven Pastors and Radical Contextualization in Missions
Tags: contextualization, jesus movements
Editor’s note: our September-October cover theme, “Can We Trust Insider Movements?”, prompted a lot of response, and in these pages we give you a sampler of the subsequent conversation. The...
Editorial Comment
Tags: contextualization, jesus movements
Dear Reader,
I need to connect for you the tie that binds the two major themes of this issue – the mystery of “insider movements” and the nitty-gritty of prioritizing some people groups above...
Contextualization Among Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists
A Focus on "Insider Movements"
Tags: contextualization, jesus movements
Much has been written over the past 25 years on the application of contextualization in ministry among Muslims. In 1998 I (John) wrote an article for the Evangelical Missions Quarterly in which I...
Pursuing Faith, Not Religion
the Liberating Quest for Contextualization
Tags: contextualization
The following is excerpted from chapters 5 and 6 of Appropriate Christianity (William Carey Library Publishers, 2005).
It is not widely understood either outside of or even inside of Christianity...