Contextualizing the Gospel: The Entrance Point Leads to the Whole
http://www.reclaimingthemission.com/?p=4395 Posted on April 16, 2014 by David Fitch — 1 Comment ↓ Growing up in Canada, (an intentionally bi-lingual country), I would read the cereal boxes every morning in both French and English . I would learn what French words meant in a French built around the vocabulary of breakfast cereal. It was an entry point into a whole entire world of French if I would just follow its discipleship (which regrettably I never really did). I still remember more French from the cereal boxes than I do from the endless all comprehensive French classes I had from third grade on because there the French was decontextualized. There’s a lesson here in the how’s and why’s of contextualizing the gospel. It illustrates that contextualizing the gospel is about finding an entrance point and being confident that any given entrance point into the true gospel will lead to the whole of the gospel if one follows Christ into discipleship. Breakfast cereal co