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Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models is unavailable, but you can change that!

Contextualization is the art of translating ideas into a particular situation, place, or culture. It is fundamental to communication, which makes contextualization essential in missions. This textbook pulls together and maps the variety of evangelical approaches to contextualization. Introductory classes on contextualization and missionary preparation institutes will appreciate this valuable...

a way that moves their hearts. Faith will feel foreign, and people will lose what they have grown up cherishing. Churches will never feel rooted in their own culture, and people will not see the true winsomeness of the gospel. They will never understand the fullest intent of the incarnation. As Byang Kato noted at the 1974 Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, “Since the Gospel message is inspired but the mode of its expression is not, contextualization of the modes of expression is not only
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