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When Our Message Falls Flat
Tags: contextualization
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
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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...
Learning to Advance the Kingdom
Tags: contextualization, kingdom of god
What could a network of missions like the Global Network of Mission Structures do with and for each other and to advance God’s Kingdom? The ideas elsewhere in this issue of Mission Frontiers...
Utilizing the Book of Ecclesiastes as a Bridge to Buddhists
Tags: buddhism, contextualization
The following is excerpted from Sharing Jesus Holistically in the Buddhist World, edited by David Lim and Steve Spaulding (William Carey Library, 2005). To order copies of this book, see pages...