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Four Ways Culture & Worship Relate
Tags: contextualization, culture, nairobi statement, worship
Christianity, like every other religion, was born in a particular historical and cultural context, in a particular time and place.1 For Christianity, this context happened to be the ancient Middle...
A Culture of Prayer In One Local Missional Church
Tags: church, culture, intercession, missional, prayer
The following is an interview by MF staff with John Lo, lead pastor of Epicentre Church in Pasadena, CA.
MF: How do you as a local church pastor make prayer a priority in both your personal life...
Applied Orality:
More than Methods
Tags: bible storying, culture, language, method, oral, orality
You hear about this thing called orality from every corner of the planet. In India, leaders teach 100 key stories of the Bible to be able to recite to others as they spread the good news, and those...
Further Reflections
Deciding When to Confront
Tags: confrontation, culture, gospel, outsider, sin, struggle
Iwas just reading an email from a husband and wife who have been working for 8 years among an unreached group in Asia and, before that, among an animistic people in Africa for a couple of years....
Obituary for the American Church
Tags: american, church, culture, western
From time to time I will have the people I’m discipling write out their own pastoral obituary. I ask them to write out how our enemy would take them out, rendering them unable to serve their family...
Is God Colorblind or Colorful?
Isabell Ides was 101 years old when she died last June. A Makah Indian, a member of a whale-hunting people, she lived in the last house on the last road on the farthest northwest tip of the United...
New Bridges
Connecting People Through Language and Culture
Tags: cross-cultural, culture, resource, training
The algorithm required to answer the question: “Can you recommend a text for me to Teach English as a Second/Foreign language?” is normally complex. I calculate location, native language, course...
Asking the Last “Why”?
Tags: college, culture, kingdom of god
College students face three daunting decisions during the young adult years. The answers to these questions will determine the trajectory of their lives, yet they have to answer with little...