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Description: The content of the gospel never changes; however,
communicating it constantly fluctuates. Conveying the gospel to a
homeless, hungry woman may include providing a hot bowl of chili,
while an agnostic co-worker might be open after several rounds of
golf. The message is the same, but the method of communicating it
is as wide and varied as life itself. Finding the correct method is
like hitting the ""sweet spot"" on a tennis racket or golf club. It
takes time, study, and practice, but once you find it you have more
success. The ""sweet spot"" in missions is called contextualization
and involves much more than learning a new language. It means
knowing a country's religious, political, and social conditions.
Correct theology, financial backing, and language acquisition are
meaningless without contextualization. This book tells the story of
a German organization struggling to contextualize the gospel in a
very hostile environment. Its mission was to revive a dying church,
characterized by centuries-old religious pride and pluralism. This
study details the challenges of faithfully communicating the gospel
in a post-Christian culture and serves as a study to enable
missionaries to recognize and respond to cultural issues affecting
the contextualization process.
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