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Today's Early Church Wisdom
“To those who ask us whence we have come or whom we have for a leader, we say that we have come in accordance with the counsels of Jesus to cut down our warlike and arrogant swords of argument into ploughshares, and we convert into sickles the spears we formerly used in fighting. For we no longer take ‘sword against a nation,’ nor do we learn ‘any more to make war,’ having become sons of peace for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader, instead of following the ancestral customs in which we were strangers to the covenants.”
~ Origen (185AD – 254AD)
This week's Psalm is Psalm 31 'My Rock, My Shield, My Song'

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Cross-Cultural Outreach

As we have seen, the need to be relevant to another person’s culture is something underlined by contemporary writers. For example, Timothy Keller highlights urban apologetics (being relevant to minority communities), cultural engagement, and plausibility structures as necessary elements for evangelism in ‘post-Christian’ societies. The more we realise the power of cultural connectedness, the more open and ready we will be to engage with other cultures different to our own. People generally tend to prefer the safety and familiarity of their own culture, and this may hold some back from reaching out to other groups. Scripture tells us that, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28), encouraging us to see others through the lens of God’s love for all. Let us be those who move towards other cultures, as moved by the Holy Spirit, learning from them and leading them to Jesus.

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