We can begin to contextualize the gospel by starting on common ground with the problem of suffering. In missions, contextualization is the art and science of bringing timeless, transcendent gospel truths into a culturally relevant, understandable form. Contextualization depends on the amount of common ground available between an unbelieving worldview and biblical categories. Communicating the gospel within an Eastern context is particularly challenging. Few, if any, biblical teachings translate easily into the dharmic religious context—a world of religions based on the cyclical nature of history, impersonal forces as the highest reality, and the goal of achieving nonexistence after death. Religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Shintoism continually confound Western missionaries. How can we share the gospel with Buddhists without a common set of shared assumptions? The Four Noble Truths can give Christians four useful conversational diving ...
Hi! my name is Margie Amelia. You may call me Amel. Maybe I'm different to normal girls, I was born with cerebral palsy. but I know God is so good to me. I love sing, read and I really love write... I love Jesus Christ and as long as I live I will praise and serve Him.. Happy reading all. ... ^ _ ~ God bless you all readers. Psalms 139:14 (KJV) “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”