Comments on: Contextualization http://chrisbean.info/contextualization/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: best single cup coffee maker http://chrisbean.info/contextualization/comment-page-1/#comment-301 best single cup coffee maker Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:34:43 +0000 http://chrisbean.info/?p=282#comment-301 Excellent post. Thanks! Excellent post. Thanks!

]]> By: Benson Hines http://chrisbean.info/contextualization/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Benson Hines Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:30:15 +0000 http://chrisbean.info/?p=282#comment-281 Completely agree! That's a good word to all of us - especially when you get feisty toward the end :) - "What makes any of us (especially campus missionaries) think that we can get away with anything less than that?" I don't know why we think we can... but we do... One understanding that might make us realize the need for contextualization even more, is understanding that we don't just have to contextualize our mission work for collegians, but also for individual campuses - and even for the individual segments of individual campuses. None of us will be perfect at it - and God is so, so gracious. But we should strive to get great at it, even in all three levels. As for the Piper quote, I THINK what he's trying to get at is what you're getting at, too, when you talk about not changing the actual message. I think he's focused there on not adjusting the "news" part of the Good News, not on how the surrounding conversation / mission work / approach is or is not contextualized. But maybe I'm hearing him wrong. Guys like John MacArthur seemed to have staked out that position - of less contextualization in both message and method - and I'm not sure that's Piper's stance. But again, I may be wrong. Completely agree! That’s a good word to all of us – especially when you get feisty toward the end :) – “What makes any of us (especially campus missionaries) think that we can get away with anything less than that?” I don’t know why we think we can… but we do…

One understanding that might make us realize the need for contextualization even more, is understanding that we don’t just have to contextualize our mission work for collegians, but also for individual campuses – and even for the individual segments of individual campuses. None of us will be perfect at it – and God is so, so gracious. But we should strive to get great at it, even in all three levels.

As for the Piper quote, I THINK what he’s trying to get at is what you’re getting at, too, when you talk about not changing the actual message. I think he’s focused there on not adjusting the “news” part of the Good News, not on how the surrounding conversation / mission work / approach is or is not contextualized. But maybe I’m hearing him wrong. Guys like John MacArthur seemed to have staked out that position – of less contextualization in both message and method – and I’m not sure that’s Piper’s stance. But again, I may be wrong.

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