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What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says - Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

For years on Sunday mornings I have invited anyone interested to come up and join in on an impromptu choir special right before ...

"Who is this Child" - Pastor Garry Castner 12/24/23.

Christmas Story - 12/24/23.

"Who is this Child" - Pastor Garry Castner 12/24/23.

December 24, 2023 Sunday School Service Live Stream "Pondering on the Christmas Story: The Savior is Born" Luke 1-2:40 ...

DEVELOPING STORY: Jewish students at Yale University were brutally attacked and bullied by pro-Hamas activists. Video shows the mob forming […]

A veteran missiologist shares a lifetime of lessons on bringing the gospel into unfamiliar settings.In an important new book, missiologist Darrell Whiteman tells a revealing story about a missionary who had been preaching in a particular community. Without realizing it, the missionary gave offense by wearing expensive shoes in a place where people couldn’t afford shoes of any type. For Whiteman, this anecdote illustrates how much missionaries need to learn—and how many presumptions they might need to abandon—in order to bring the gospel to people in other cultures.Whiteman’s book Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness, challenges his readers—and missionaries in particular—to recognize the possible ethnocentrism in their perspective, which can distort and impede their ability to communicate well across cultural boundaries. As he explains, each culture has its own ways of understanding and coping with the problems of life. All of us understand biblical truths in ways that seem natural to us in our own cultures but not to people who have grown up in other cultures.In each community, traditions of communication and interaction develop over time, resulting in distinct customs. Every community has its own sense of the past, its own traditions of loyalty and obligation, its own rules of courtesy, and its own conceptions of virtue and honor. If missionaries are to communicate with people who have grown up in other cultures, argues Whiteman, they must lay aside their own presuppositions and cultural conventions and commit to acquiring knowledge of unfamiliar customs and ways of thought.Watching, listening, and asking questionsThe missionary project, as Whiteman reminds us, is to insert the universal message of the gospel “within the very ...Continue reading...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Chuck Colson, the birth of Hannibal Goodwin, and the election of Pope Sixtus V.

DEVELOPING STORY: Israel has launched airstrikes against Iran. There are reports of multiple explosions, ABC News reports. Joel Rosenberg, the […]

DEVELOPING STORY: Students in the Nebo School District in Payson, Utah walked out of class today to protest “furries.” Students […]