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This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

Conversations about missions and music often revolve around an insistence that in order to reach unbelievers in a target culture, we need to contextualize the message into their language, be it spoken, acted, or sung.

Here are some helpful words from an excellent journal article by Mark Snoeberger that I think get to [...]

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Christian Cultural Literacy

On January 20, 2011 By
This entry is part 11 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

I recently had a chance to discuss the topic of Supreme Court nominations with a young woman who was studying for a career in law. Some of the terms we used included confirmation hearings, Senate committee, Federal Appeals Panel, separation of powers, checks and balances, and Chappaquiddick. In order to carry on our conversation, we [...]

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This entry is part 13 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

The purpose of culture is not to reach the lost or give authentic expression for Christians; it is to express and cultivate right worship.

In my last article I addressed the argument for using contemporary music forms based on a missions philosophy that stresses indigenous ministry. I suggested that such an argument is [...]

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To harmonize the affections

On January 18, 2011 By
This entry is part 10 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

And all would serve, the more speedily and effectually, to change the taste of Indians, and to bring them off from their barbarism and brutality, to a relish for those things, which belong to civilization and refinement.

Another thing, which properly belongs to a Christian education, and which would be unusually popular with them, and [...]

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This entry is part 8 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

Last week, I spoke at the Preserving the Truth Conference in Troy, MI. Of the three points that I made in my presentation (notes, audio), one is especially relevant to the discussion of missions.

The antithesis, then, presents us a goal: to explore and articulate a Christianity that is [...]

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This entry is part 7 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

Jonathan Edwards very much wanted to see the American Indians believe the gospel. His famous grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, had published in 1723 a sermon asking Whether God is not angry with the country for doing so little towards the conversion of the Indians? After being ousted at Northampton over the communion controversy in [...]

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This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Missions and Music

Here’s the reality: those of us blogging here fully realize that our positions are not popular. Not popular, I suppose, greatly underestimates the matter: for many Christians today, our positions are not even fathomable—it is impossible for them to believe that anyone could hold a position as outlandish, and even as offensive, as ours. And [...]

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