What is Contextualization? Presenting the Gospel in Culturally Relevant Ways

Key statement: “Contextualization involves an attempt to present the Gospel in a culturally relevant way.”

Points:

“We use the term ‘culture’ to refer to the common ideas, feelings, and values that guide community and personal behavior, that organize and regulate what the group thinks, feels, and does about God, the world, and humanity.”
“Contextualization, then, is simply about sharing the Gospel well.”
“The goal for contextualization is to create ‘indigenous expressions of gospel-centered, mission-shaped churches.’”