Imperishable Inheritance

One of the top­ics that one is exposed to in mis­si­o­log­i­cal stud­ies is that of con­tex­tu­al­iza­tion. At first, some­thing doesn’t seem quite right, and I even wrote on this blog my thoughts when I first worked through it. It seems as though some are try­ing to “water-down” the Gospel to make it more pal­pa­ble to car­nal men. And to be hon­est with you, there are preach­ers and evan­ge­lists that are tak­ing the idea too far. In fact, they (read more...)

I heard this excerpt read in Sun­day School, and I found it provoca­tive enough to share. It was writ­ten by Roy Hat­ter­s­ley a for­mer deputy leader of the U.K.‘s Labour Party. He was also a mem­ber of Par­lia­ment and a pro­lific writer. “Despite writ­ing books on John Wes­ley and the Sal­va­tion Army?s William and Cather­ine Booth, Hat­ter­s­ley remains a firm athe­ist. How­ever, in the wake of Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina, whilst unable to accept the doc­tri­nal claims or eth­i­cal impli­ca­tions of Chris­tian­ity, he admit­ted (read more...)