The Greater Debate: I'm Back!!

Friday, May 4, 2007

I'm Back!!

After a hiatus with school work, I will be getting back to this discussion.

The future posts will be

Youth Ministry in a Postmodern world
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalist Separatists and it's relevance today
A definition and beginnings of culture and how the church fits into it

Those are a few. Check back!!!

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Intro

Questions regarding the relationship between church and culture are critical to the mission of the church. Faithful mission practice requires an understand of the culture in which one is serving. Historically, discerning missionaries have engaged the culture, seeking to communicate the gospel in indigenous forms while remaining faithful to Scripture. Unfortunately, in the West, we often make the mistake of giving culture short shrift, convinced that we understand the carious cultures within Western countries.

The church must recognize that we re in the midst of a cultural revolution and that nineteenth-century (or older) forms of church do not communicate clearly to twenty-first-century cultures. A major transformation in the way the church understands culture must occur for the church to negotiate the changed ministry environment of the twenty-first century. The church is a modern institution in a postmodern world, a fact that is often widely overlooked. The church must embody the gospel within the culture of postmodernity for the Western church to survive the twenty-first century.

[Emerging Churches. Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger. Baker Academic. 2005]

The Greater Debate

Friday, May 4, 2007

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