Part 1: Summary/Overview Part 2: The Three Tiers Part 3: Situational, Existential, Normative So far in this series, I have argued that Christians should engage the culture, beginning with understanding and apply the example of Jesus in John 1:14. Cultural engagement should take place on three dimensions: physical, relational, and spiritual. I showed how these three dimensions [...]
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Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 3
April 29, 2011Part 1: Summary/Overview || Part 2: The Three Tiers You may be wondering how or where the triperspectival paradigm fits in what I have explained so far. In yesterday’s post, I explained the three tiers: physical, relational, and spiritual. When people normally talk about triperspectivalism, they are referring to the three offices of Christ: prophet, [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 2
April 28, 2011In yesterday’s post, I tried to give you a little overview of the triperspectival paradigm and in particular how it draws from the incarnation of Christ (John 1:14) and the outworking of His mission. In this post, I want to dig a little deeper into the relationship of the physical, relational, and spiritual in regards [...]
Tim Keller at Urban Plant Life
November 20, 2010Steve McCoy pointed us to some Tim Keller gold last week. Here are eight newly formatted PDFs of Tim Keller talks from the recent Urban Plant Life Conference and Consultation in London. Gospel Renewal Church and Culture Contextual and Missional Gospel Preaching Integrative Ministry Gospel Theology Movement Dynamics Church Planting You can get these and [...]
Dever on Culture
October 13, 2010Here’s a good, short video clip where Mark Dever speaks on how culture is a reflection of humanity, both in its goodness (imago dei) and in its fallenness (depravity) and how the gospel, rightly proclaimed is both attractive and offensive at the same time.
Exegeting the Context
January 19, 2010As someone who is still relatively new to preaching, I am finding myself given more and more to not only the content and delivery but also reception. In other words, I am giving myself not only to rightly understanding the text of Scripture but also the context of people’s lives. We often stress the importance [...]
Christ the Builder, Christ the Perfecter
December 1, 2009The church is a people who are called out and set apart from the world who are also called and sent into the world. The goal of the Christian life is complete conformity to Christ, and such conformity is both in character and in mission. In other words, the church is to be both a [...]
Insight Podcast: Interview with Tullian Tchividjian on Gospel, Church, and Culture
April 9, 2009My good friend Doug Baker has continued his long list of excellent podcasts with his most recent addition – Tullian Tchividjian. It was recently announced that Tullian accepted the position of pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, suceeding Dr. D. James Kennedy. Tullian is the author of several books, most recently Unfashionable: Making a Difference [...]
Cultural Exegesis and Contextual Research
September 17, 2008I am curious to know if any of you have done the work of exegeting culture, especially in regards to church planting. If you have, I would like to know what questions you asked and what methods you implemented in the process. I know that good exegesis requires current and accurate demographic and ethnographic research [...]
Is Relevance a Liberal Assumption?
November 9, 2007While the Board of Trustees were in town for the SBTS Heritage Week, Mark Dever held a IX Marks lecture in Broadus chapel in which he opened up by speaking to the issue of relevance in gospel ministry (I was in attendance). Writing for Baptist Press, Garrett Wishall quotes Dever who said, “I would like [...]
Tullian Tchividjian with Books on Church and Culture
November 7, 2007Tullian Tchividjian has compiled a nice list of books on church and culture. No Place for Truth by David Wells God in the Wasteland by David Wells Losing our Virtue by David Wells Above all Earthly Powers by David Wells Engaging God’s World by Cornelius Plantinga Not the Way it’s Supposed to be by Cornelius [...]
On Cultural Engagement
October 24, 2007Given our recent discussion on church and culture, I was jazzed to see that soon-to-be-father-of-three Joe Thorn has written a nice piece on cultural engagement. Before he lays out six rules, Joe provides a helpful cultural framework that addresses the aspects of culture that are broken (to be redeemed), evil (to be rejected), and good [...]
Speaking of Church and Culture
October 11, 2007[For context of current discussion, see my posts here and here.] Phil Ryken at Reformation 21 blog asks the question, Does Scripture call the local church (by which we mean the local church as the local church, not as individual Christians) to the work of cultural transformation? There is a sense in which the answer [...]
From Rural to Suburban to Urban, or The Kellerizing of the SBC
October 4, 2007One of the changes I have seen in recent church revitalization and church planting is the move to the cities. Southern Baptist churches have predominantly been located in rural areas, although the megachurch movement eventually led churches to start in booming suburban populations. Yet it is a relatively new emphasis and change to see more [...]
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