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Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission is unavailable, but you can change that!

From Cairo to Calcutta, from Cochabamba to Columbus, Christians are engaged in a conversation about how to speak and live the gospel in today's traditional, modern and emergent cultures. The technical term for their efforts is contextualization. Missionary theorists have pondered and written on it at length. More and more, those who do theology in the West are also trying to discover new ways of...

I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. ACTS 10:34–35 Contextualizing the gospel is inherent to the mission of the church. The book of Acts tells the story of a church whose very identity involved expressing the good news about Jesus in multiple settings and among new groups of people. It is little wonder, then, that interpreters of the New Testament
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