Comments on: Us and them http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/2010/01/14/us-and-them/ biblical missiology / the sending church / post-christian contexts Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Natalie http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/2010/01/14/us-and-them/comment-page-1/#comment-4142 Natalie Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:52:16 +0000 http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/?p=1410#comment-4142 C. Holland, ha, that's a rather comical picture! Unfortunately, I'm afraid your church isn't the only one that has experienced the effects of such poor planning and ignorance. We certainly need to be aware of the surroundings (our audience, so to speak) if we want to effectively communicate our message. C. Holland, ha, that’s a rather comical picture! Unfortunately, I’m afraid your church isn’t the only one that has experienced the effects of such poor planning and ignorance. We certainly need to be aware of the surroundings (our audience, so to speak) if we want to effectively communicate our message.

]]> By: C. Holland http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/2010/01/14/us-and-them/comment-page-1/#comment-4141 C. Holland Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:43:27 +0000 http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/?p=1410#comment-4141 Excellent thoughts. It's not just the foreign field missionary who should investigate the cultural differences. I've often thought that church planters who are sent to a completely different area/state need to be just as sensitive. As a native Californian, the denomination that I grew up in consistently sent to our churches pastors who were fresh from the deep South and kept making cultural references to us as if they were still in the deep South. Imagine a bunch of surfers with quizzical looks and no idea what the pastor was talking about! Excellent thoughts. It’s not just the foreign field missionary who should investigate the cultural differences. I’ve often thought that church planters who are sent to a completely different area/state need to be just as sensitive.

As a native Californian, the denomination that I grew up in consistently sent to our churches pastors who were fresh from the deep South and kept making cultural references to us as if they were still in the deep South. Imagine a bunch of surfers with quizzical looks and no idea what the pastor was talking about!

]]> By: Tweets that mention Us and them | the upstream collective blog -- Topsy.com http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/2010/01/14/us-and-them/comment-page-1/#comment-4140 Tweets that mention Us and them | the upstream collective blog -- Topsy.com Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:48:43 +0000 http://blog.theupstreamcollective.org/?p=1410#comment-4140 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Upstream Collective, Natalie Kaspar. Natalie Kaspar said: Who is “Us” and “Them” from the church’s perspective? A look at Wolf's thoughts on cultural contextualization. http://tinyurl.com/yj3484f [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Upstream Collective, Natalie Kaspar. Natalie Kaspar said: Who is “Us” and “Them” from the church’s perspective? A look at Wolf's thoughts on cultural contextualization. http://tinyurl.com/yj3484f [...]

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