From: "cmiphil" <cmiphil@jmf.org.ph>
Date: Mon Jan 22, 2001 10:30 am
Subject: Culture Barriers
Thanks a lot, Justin, for a well written piece on contextualization.
And hello to the panels from Central Asia and South Asia!
I personally see Acts 15 to be a "compromise" negotiated agreement FOR THAT TIME. Two moral (universal) laws (no idolatry nor immorality) and two ritual (Jewish cultural, hence relative) laws (no blood nor meat of strangled animals). The latter two were to appease Jewish conscience, but not prohibited in God's eternal Word (cf. 1 Tim. 4:3-4; Mk. 7:21-23). Let's plant churches in their (contextual) terms, not in our (contextual) terms.
