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The Gospel and Culture

The Gospel and Culture: The Message of the Bible

Over a month ago I wrote a post on the relationship between the Gospel and culture which has since expanded into five longer posts – of which this is the final part.  In the original post I wrote: …in any culture, we must take the Bible as a whole and read and teach in the […]

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Church: World Mission

The Gospel and Culture: Different People See Different Things

This is my fourth post in a series expanding the ideas originally contained in a short blog post on the way in which the Gospel interacts with different cultures. So far, I’ve set out that the Christian message does not belong to any one cultural setting, but can in fact make itself at home in […]

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Mission

The Gospel and Culture: A Part of the Furniture

This is the third part of a series expanding on a short post about the contextualisation of the Gospel. You can find the original piece here. Christian communities very rapidly confuse their own cultural expression of Christianity with the Biblical pattern… In my earlier posts in this series, I started off with the image of […]

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Church: UK Church: World

The Gospel and Culture: The Gospel Makes Itself at Home

This is the second in a series of posts expanding my thoughts on contextualisation of the Gospel which you can find here. In the first post in this series, I suggested that the Gospel is Homeless, that is there is no such thing as a the definitive Christian language or culture. However, the opposite side […]

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Church: World Theology

The Gospel and Culture: the homeless Gospel

A few days ago, I posted a short piece on the Gospel and Culture with five bullet points. I want to unpack each of these points in a series of posts over the next wee while, starting (somewhat strangely) with the first point: The original language and culture of the Gospel are not sacred… this […]

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Church: UK Observations

The Gospel and Culture

There is a fascinating blog discussion going on between Andrew Jones of Tall Skinny Kiwi and Phil Johnson of Pyromaniacs on the subject of the contextualisation of the Gospel. As is the case with Internet conversations the whole thing becomes a mishmash of links and comments and it’s hard to step into it half way […]

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Avril Poisson

Macedonia and the Future of Christianity

A short review of a book which is absolutely essential for today.

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Observations

Churches and Agencies In Partnership

An excellent series of articles on partnerships between mission agencies and majority world churches.

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Observations

Demonology, Mission and the Global Church

We have no right to send people on missions, especially in cross-cultural or multicultural contexts, without giving them an understanding of demonology!

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Observations

Remembering Andrew Walls

Author David Smith talks about the life, work and impact of his teacher and friend, Andrew Walls.