Passive Obedience and the Virtue of Contentment
We usually think of Christian obedience as an active pursuit, but is there a passive…
C. S. Barefoot is a cross-cultural church planter and theological education strategist. He is author of “Hermeneutical Community: Pursuing Local Theology in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective.” His writing here on this site features a mix of biblical, theological, missiological, and devotional reflections.
We usually think of Christian obedience as an active pursuit, but is there a passive…
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The topic of contextualization has generated a lot of debate within theological and missiological circles…
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Secular ideologies over the past several centuries have, by and large, failed to achieve their…
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Early in the book of Acts, Jesus identified two currents that were to propel the…