“When churches in the West talk about contextualization, they are often meaning nothing more than a simple change in the style of music or the introduction of drums or new seating to replace the pews.”5 Even the so-called emerging church movement, which has incorporated the postmodern principles of de-institutionalization and horizontal organization while stressing relational types of ministry, falls short in this regard. By some measures the emerging church has stumbled into a less-apparent modernistic