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Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel offers a challenge to conventional Christian ideas. David H. Stern’s message is one of clear thinking about neglected questions such as: What central truth, ignored for 1800 years, must be restored if the Church is to fulfill the Great Commission? How are both the Jews and the Church God’s people? Is there a difference between Jew and Gentile in the body of...

Each of these types requires its own approach to contextualization. To give one example, consider the verbal presentation of important theological concepts. In Type I Evangelism one can use “Christian language,” with such terms as “sin,” “born again” and “saved,” the object being to deepen the hearer’s spiritual understanding of what these mean, so that he will respond with faith. In Type II Evangelism such terminology seems peculiar and troublesome. These ideas must be conveyed differently to un-Christianized
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