Issues and Theology

Know Your Setting

By Matt Erickson

When I was a graduate student, I took a missions class called “Contextualization” as an elective. The class was essentially intended to equip missionaries for understanding the cross-cultural context, or setting, in which they were going to do mission work so that they could share the message of Christ in culturally astute ways. We discussed ethical issues like bribery, relational issues like polygamy, and theological issues like worship styles that fit the heart language of a people group.

WWJT: What Would Jesus Tweet (!?!)

By Matt Erickson

In my ever-continuing conversation with folks out there about the uses of social media, from Facebook to blogging to Twitter, I’ve encountered another bit of fodder for the conversation.

It came via a Twitter re-tweet that I read entitled “7 Reasons Christians Should Twitter.”

Before I make any comments on this let me say that, in all fairness to the author – whom I have never met – I can see a clear desire for ministry and creativity at work in life. 

The Real Good News

By Matt Erickson

“To recover the old, authentic, biblical gospel, and to bring our preaching and practice back into line with it, is perhaps our most pressing present need.” J. I. Packer wrote these words in his 1958 introduction to a reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.

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