Sentences with phrase «contexts than the gospel»
Here is a sobering statement by Hiebert: «As Christians, we are often unaware that we are shaped more by our contexts than the gospel (p. 83).»
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I believe that while the apostle Paul instructed some women not to teach, he encouraged others to prophesy, teach, and lead, and so we have to look at the epistles in their totality and in their context rather than lifting a few verses out to restrict women from preaching the gospel.
It is fun to speculate and apply probabilities, correlations, and historical context to what might actually have been said by Jesus but all we know for sure is that the gospels were written by people other than Jesus — and people that in all probability never even met Jesus.
While attractional churches will continue to dominate the landscape of the Christian world, I strongly believe that hope for the future lies increasingly with an incarnational approach to mission that takes both gospel and context seriously and sends Christians out as missionaries rather than calling pagans to come and attend church.