Contextualizing The Gospel Quotes & Sayings

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt. — Rudyard Kipling

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time. — Stone Gossard

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that. — Tao Lin

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. — William Maxwell

THE DANGER OF NOT CONTEXTUALIZING (OR OF THINKING YOU AREN'T) All gospel ministry and communication are already heavily adapted to a particular culture. So it is important to do contextualization consciously. If we never deliberately think through ways to rightly contextualize gospel ministry to a new culture, we will unconsciously be deeply contextualized to some other culture. Our gospel ministry will be both overadapted to our own culture and underadapted to new cultures at once, which ultimately leads to a distortion of the Christian message.23 — Timothy Keller

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience. — Anne Sweeney

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience. — H.G.Wells