What Churches Must Adapt and Why

Tim Keller on "contextualization," the necessary adaptation that Christians and their churches must make to the culture they find themselves in:

Contextualization is not--as is often argued--'giving people what they want to hear.' Rather, it is giving people the Bible's answers, which they may not at all want to hear, to questions about life that people in their particular time and place are asking, in language and forms they can comprehend, and through appeals and arguments with force they can feel, even if they reject them.

From his book, Center Church

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