“The influx of people from all over the world has happened in the last five years….What is your church like? Are you learning to love a wide variety of cultures and educational backgrounds? I hope so.” - Don Johnson
‘Revelation 5:9 and 7:9 paint a glorious picture of the Church: redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, and nation, united in worship. These saints come from every imaginable background—linguistic, cultural, social, and generational. Though they are one in Christ, they retain their distinctiveness.” - P&D
Planting a Spanish-speaking church … in small town Wisconsin - GARBC
Reposted from Rooted Thinking. This post originally appeared at GFA’s blog Commissioned. Read Part 1.
The whole discussion of food offered to idols in 1 Corinthians 8-10 is still immediately relevant to billions of people in our world today. The applications of the passage are very important for all Christians. For now, we will focus on the immediate context of these chapters.
The Corinthian believers were asking:
“Contextualization is good and necessary. Syncretism is dangerous and should be avoided.” - Kenneth Berding
Reposted from Rooted Thinking. This post originally appeared at GFA’s blog Commissioned, where you can find more missions-related content.
Billions of people in today’s world worship idols, angels, spirits of the dead/ancestors, and other spiritual powers.1 People have been worshiping demons and idols since the Fall. God’s people ever since have had to learn how to honor the One True and Living God in a pagan world.
More than ever before we need to see cross-cultural missions as advancing the Gospel among peoples and language groups, not merely reaching those within certain political boundaries. This distinction is becoming increasingly important as our world grows integrated through a global economy and technology. Peoples and languages, not countries—this is what I would like to emphasize.
