The Missional Approach to Culture
This entry is part 11 of 20 in the series"Christ the Sanctifier of Behavior"You can read more posts from the series by using the Table of Contents in the right sidebar.The missional church movement is...
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This entry is part 18 of 20 in the series"Christ the Sanctifier of Behavior"You can read more posts from the series by using the Table of Contents in the right sidebar.The sixth conclusion drawn from...
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Ultimate and Subordinate Ends
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series"Worship and the Missio Dei"You can read more posts from the series by using the Table of Contents in the right sidebar.There is a lot of talk today about the...
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The significance of worship for the Great Commission
This article first appeared on The Artistic Theologian, the online theological journal of Southwestern Seminary’s School of Church Music. The Lord Jesus Christ gave the church its commission before he...
View ArticleThe Mission of Worship: An Assessment of the Missional Church Movement’s...
The following is the paper I presented yesterday at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society: PDF Audio Version Most church leaders readily recognize that God has tasked churches...
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Introduction to By the Waters of Babylon
The following is an excerpt from By the Waters of Babylon: Worship in a Post-Christian Culture by Scott Aniol (Kregel, 2015). By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered...
View ArticleThe Missional Understanding of “Culture”
Last time I argued that the contemporary idea of “culture” came to being within discussions of modern anthropology It was in this anthropological climate that the missional idea of culture took shape....
View ArticleAre NT “Race”-related Terms Equivalent to “Culture”?
The question before us is this: are there any New Testament terms that are equivalent to the contemporary notion of “culture”? At least three separate categories of NT Greek terms possibly parallel the...
View ArticleAre NT “Behavior”-related Terms Equivalent to “Culture”?
So far I have argued that neither “race”-related terms and “world”-related terms in the NT approximate the anthropological idea of “culture.” A third category of NT terms that could parallel the...
View ArticleScripturally, “Culture” is Simply the “Behavior” of a People
If there is any concept of the anthropological/missional idea of “culture” in the NT, it is the idea of “way of life.” A people’s culture is their behavior and their conduct. Several important...
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