church life and ministry on Culture

Gracious God, we don’t live as Christ did. Although You give us specific instructions for an ordered way of life that stands out from the rest of the world, we settle for lukewarm Christianity. Our li...

As a missionary … it was always comforting to realize that I did not bring God along with my physical and cultural baggage to my new host country.

I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.

We believe that the gospel is best lived out when churches are firmly rooted in their surrounding community's culture.

[Culture is] The collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

Culture is a human attempt to understand the world around us. It is the programming that shapes who we are and who we are becoming. It is a social system that is shaped by the individual and that also...

The Gospel as such has no native country. He who goes out humbly with Christ in the world of all races will perpetually discover the multiple, but constant, relevance of what he takes. It takes a whol...

Any religious movement which adopts a purely critical and negative attitude to culture is therefore a force of destruction and disintegration which mobilizes against it the healthiest and most constru...

To reach people we must appreciate and adapt to their culture, but we must also challenge and confront it. This is based on the biblical teaching that all cultures have God's grace and natural rev...