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Discovering God's Missional Heart (Culture (Culture is contingent…
Discovering God's Missional Heart
God's missional in the western church is often private
Public missiology
Theology divorced from the rest of life
Enlightenment- challenged. assumptions
Enlightenment
Assumption- spiritual realities everywhere- material world
The private realm, divorced from public realities
The sacred realm, divorced from secular realities
Cognition, not embodied, affections, social aspects
Theoretical and abstract, not empirical and livable
Sin the public realm
Many forms of secularisation
Local congregations
A different kind of theology
Witness through a community
The gift of location to your part of the world
Complexity : complication of goodness
Incarnation
Leslie Newbigin
Mission in the context of secular pluralistic society
Theology as wisdom
Theology as Theo Drama
Culture
We learn culture experientially through all 5 senses
'Exegesis'- the critical interpretation of something
Cultural Iceberg- surface culture- deep culture 'imagined culture'
Culture is contingent
Every culture has always been mixing
Ideology
"System of meaning in the service of power' Vanhoozer
If a culture isn't changing it is dead
Gatekeepers
Ethnocentrism
Relativism- no cultural expression can be judged good or bad by Scripture or by the church from another context
Engaging culture
Contextualisation is not a strategy it's a theology
Contextualisation needs to keep changing as well
4 Gospels contextualisations
Not a strategy- part of the gospel
Paul Hiebert- Critica contextualization
Multicultural/Reverse Conversion
World Christianity
60 percent of Christians liven Africa, Asia and Latin America
Diaspora
God accomplishes mission through movement
Millions of people from less affluent parts moving to the west