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“How can I be the One today, to let my light shine before others so that they will see my good
deeds and glorify God in heaven?”
Kingdom Cultureand
Culture(s) in our Context
Tim Keller:
Every human culture is an extremely complex mixture of brilliant truth, marred half-truths, and overt resistance to the truth.
A Simple Litmus Test
A Simple Litmus Test
2 Simple Questions:1. “How does this enable the Gospel story to be told?”
Michael Goheen
The starting point for contextualization is the primacy of the gospel: the affirmation that the church begins by attending to the story of Scripture as its ultimate commitment.
A Simple Litmus Test
2 Simple Questions:1. “How does this enable the Gospel story to be told?”
Dean Fleming
(Paul’s goal was not) “simply intellectual assent to a creed, but rather the total transformation of people within their circumstances, as they allow the story of Christ to rewrite their own scripts.”
Romans 12:2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
A Simple Litmus Test
2 Simple Questions:1.“How does this enable the Gospel story to be told?”
2.“Will this hinder or obstruct transformation in the individual or community?”
Mopani Worms
1 Corinthians 10:23 - 33
1 Corinthians 10:23 – 331 Corinthians 8:7 - 9, 12 - 13
A Simple Litmus Test
2 Simple Questions:1.“How does this enable the Gospel story to be told?”
2.“Will this hinder or obstruct transformation in the individual or community?”
Matthew 6:28 - 2928 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
Isaiah 61:1010 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
Romans 13:1414 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
A Simple Litmus Test
2 Simple Questions:1.“How does this enable the Gospel story to be told?”
2.“Will this hinder or obstruct transformation in the individual or community?”
