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A missionary cannot properly evaluate the differences among cultural expressions until he has understood their universals.
At the root of the most thoughtful defenses of contemporary worship today is an appeal based on a missions philosophy that stresses indigenous ministry. If, as the International Missionary Council asserted as far back 1938, an indigenous [...]
Continue Reading →In my handful of posts this month, I want to give some anecdotes from church history to inform us as to how missionaries, attempting to plant indigenous church, should approach the issue of music in the culture in which they minister. My posts will not always touch on music per se, but instead explore the [...]
Continue Reading →One of missionaries most challenging issues is what kind of music to use as they plant indigenous churches. Two extremes exist: on the one hand are missionaries who simply impose American musical forms on the foreign church; on the other hand are those who indiscriminately adopt the forms of the native culture in their worship.
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Continue Reading →On Saturdays we repost articles from the archives that apply to current issues. The following article deals with what music should be used for indigenous church planting.
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Here is a question about culture and missions I recently received by e-mail:
I am intrigued by this idea of culture and music. It seems [...]
Continue Reading →On Saturdays we repost articles from the archives that apply to current issues. The following article discusses whether a missionary should simply adopt a culture’s music in church planting.
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I mentioned in my report on our Brazil trip that I had the opportunity to sit down with a man who grew [...]
Continue Reading →In Titus 1:5, Paul explains that the reason he sent Titus to Crete was to “straighten out” the churches. The churches themselves had already been planted, yet there were still matters to be set in order so that the churches would be strong. Appointing elders is the specific issue mentioned in the text, but [...]
Continue Reading →I mentioned in my report on our Brazil trip that I had the opportunity to sit down with a man who grew up in a tribe in the Amazon. His name is Rober (pronounced ”HO-ber”) Guerreiro (means “warrior”), and he is a member of a Tikuna (pronounced “chi-KOO-nah”) tribe in [...]
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