Browsing Tag
contextualization
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Contextualization and Scripture: Understanding the Nature of Cross-Cultural Communication
I asked my dear friend, neighbor, and missiology colleague at my former seminary, Samuel Escobar, where biblical studies…
Paul in Athens—Acts 17:16-19
Paul does his best to transcend others’ prejudices and cultural barriers to share good news in Athens.
Why Paul referred to an altar of an unknown god–Acts 17:23
2.8 minutes by Acts scholar Craig Keener. For 23 free lectures on Acts, see http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/DigitalCourses/00_DigitalBiblicalStudiesCourses.html#Acts_Keener
How to relate to people when you share the gospel with them–examples in Acts
Evangelism: contextualizing the message. 1 minute. (This is a sample piece of a larger lecture on evangelism in…
Contemporary Christian worship?—Exodus 25
What matters about worship is whom it addresses: the true God. As far as music styles or other…
Finding common ground—Acts 17
Paul’s letters never compromise God’s message, but he uses the language of his culture to articulate that message…
A missionary meets the mother church—Acts 21:20-25
When Paul visited the church in Jerusalem, its leaders reaffirmed their acceptance of his Gentile mission: Gentiles did…