A missionary, in a cross-cultural setting and before a cross-cultural target audience, needs to learn to communicate Christ, and the Scriptures, in terms of the hearer’s way of viewing the world (sources must assume the responsibility of encoding messages with the worldview of the respondents in mind)…way of thinking (people in different cultures tend to [...]
A SYMBOL OF OUR TIME At the time of the Reformation, the Reformers wrote “the symbol of our time” when they wrote the first and unaltered Augsburg Confession. This symbol was not a judge like Scripture but was “merely a witness and exposition of the faith, setting forth how at various times the Holy Scriptures [...]
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Missiological Bridge-Building Based Upon an Emic and Etic Understanding of Culture As Derived From Music Missio Apostolica Volume VII, No. 1 (May 1999) INTRODUCTION Francis Schaeffer observed that modern music is both an avenue for creative expression and the means through which modern man is exposed to new views of perceived reality (Schaeffer 1976:186, 201-202). [...]
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DEFINITION OF APOSTOLIC CONTEXTUALIZATION: Apostolic contextualization is the grounding of God’s Word in such a way that the Gospel comes alive through the Holy Spirit’s power and activity in a particular context, is communicated in the language and communication patterns of the receptor’s frame of reference, and is clothed in symbols which are meaningful and [...]
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