Some grabs from yesterday. Contextualisation: Bringing the changeless message of the Gospel to address the particular cultural situation of the audience. Sermon introductions: ‘Open up your Bibles to …’ is also a contextualised approach to a felt need of an audience. No one presentation can transcend all cultures. What steps do we take to locate/stay …
David Cook has written a letter outlining some positive experiences and perspectives about evangelical Christianity in the UK. It’s posted on the Presbyterian Church of Australia Website. We have been in the U.K. now since 13th February, long enough to have some reflections: In Australia we may think that the Church we see in the …
Thanks to Ray Ortlund for posting this quote from Lesslie Newbigin: “There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of ‘the missionary mandate.’ This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems …
Saw lots and lots of friends in Sydney this past week, including Rev Bill Lutton. Bill and Jenny are currently serving in Kingaroy, Qld. When they visited Mount Gambier some years ago (when Bill was director of APWM) he introduced us to the wonderful song From The Sun’s Rising. A great song of sending, and …
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