Tilling the soil of our hearts and world for faith
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Dying to our precious memories Those among us from “traditional” Christian backgrounds are dying to our precious memories of “church” in order to bring the gospel into the present with great flexibility. This is one of my favorite proverbs in Circle of Hope, and not just because it offers a sort of dig at my Evangelical upbringing, but because it acknowledges that the soil that we plant the seeds of the Gospel in is changing. Christianity has been planted in a variety of soils across time and across the world, and the fact that it is has showcases that the faith itself both adapts to and also interrogates the cultures that it is in. It is hard to see how it does so in an immediate context in the same way that it might be hard for a fish to imagine that it’s in water. We need some distance to consider what impact our faith has on us, on our culture, and how it settles into the soil.
Tilling the soil of our hearts and world for faith
Tilling the soil of our hearts and world for…
Tilling the soil of our hearts and world for faith
Dying to our precious memories Those among us from “traditional” Christian backgrounds are dying to our precious memories of “church” in order to bring the gospel into the present with great flexibility. This is one of my favorite proverbs in Circle of Hope, and not just because it offers a sort of dig at my Evangelical upbringing, but because it acknowledges that the soil that we plant the seeds of the Gospel in is changing. Christianity has been planted in a variety of soils across time and across the world, and the fact that it is has showcases that the faith itself both adapts to and also interrogates the cultures that it is in. It is hard to see how it does so in an immediate context in the same way that it might be hard for a fish to imagine that it’s in water. We need some distance to consider what impact our faith has on us, on our culture, and how it settles into the soil.