Gospel.com Topics Feed - Contextualization
2010-08-09T16:46:27-05:00GCIinfo@gospel.comhttp://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/contextualizationContextualization without compromise. Tell the gospel so it makes sensehttp://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/17702010-08-09T16:46:27-05:00
Valuable explanation from Pastor Tullian Tchividjian of the strategic importance of biblical contextualization.
The ministry of Jesus clearly demonstrates this sort of contextualization.
Today’s popular culture also offers us multiple entry points for effective evangelism. Defining Christian web pages on the X Spectrum Scale - a diagnostic tool for outreachhttp://internetevangelismday.com/x-spectrum.php2010-08-08T05:52:16-05:00
In the missions world of church-planting, a helpful C1-C6 spectrum has been devised to define the degree of contextualization that a church is using in relation to the culture surrounding it. The concept has been developed by strategists John Travis, Phil Parshall and others. In conjuction with Create International, we propose a similar categorization of X1-X6 to define the conteXtual positioning of Christian websites (and indeed other media – radio, video, and literature). Lausanne World Pulse - Complications of Communicating the Gospel:http://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/684/04-2007?pg=all2008-05-02T14:30:42-05:00
Why We Should Take the Culture of the People Seriously. Contextualization is imperative to reaching the unreached. Understanding the culture we are in is the beginning of the process.
Lausanne World Pulse - Contextualization in the Islamic Contexthttp://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/686/04-2007?pg=all2008-05-02T14:22:57-05:00
Contextualization in ministry to Muslims needs to consider all the barriers to why Muslims have historically been resistant to the gospel.
Lausanne World Pulse - Contextualization that Is Comprehensivehttp://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/673/04-2007?pg=all2008-05-02T14:21:25-05:00
Comprehensive contextualization includes not only theology, but all seven dimensions of the religious life.
Lausanne World Pulse - Contextualization and God’s Global Missionhttp://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/682/04-2007?pg=all2008-05-02T14:17:52-05:00
Missio Dei establishes the priority of God’s activity in terms of mission and characterizes God himself as being a missionary God. Lausanne World Pulse - Contextualizing Western Workers: Gifts from the Muslim Worldhttp://lausanneworldpulse.com/perspectives.php/737/06-2007?pg=all2008-05-01T11:11:47-05:00
Muslim interaction can give us at least four contextualized gifts.
Lausanne World Pulse - Before Contextualization: Critical Incarnational Livinghttp://lausanneworldpulse.com/perspectives.php/707/06-2007?pg=all2008-05-01T11:06:57-05:00
Critical incarnational living and contextualization of the gospel go hand in hand.
Building Ministry in Your Cultural Contexthttp://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=200&art_id=622007-11-24T12:25:34-05:00
Cookie-cutter ministry formulas don't work in every cultural context. Dave Livermore helps us to adapt our ministry strategy to each context, including the Word, Worship, Community and Serving.