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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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Cultural Relevance, Scripture Knowledge, and Listening to Jesus in Outreach

The value of both cultural awareness and cultural relevance has been stressed by a number of writers including John Stott (1975), who in his book Christian Mission In The Modern World argued for “double listening” to both Scripture and culture, and integrated evangelism with social responsibility through the Lausanne movement. We would go a step further than Stott, affirming that the most important ‘listening’ of all, for any evangelist, is that of listening to Jesus, who alone is the ‘author and finisher’ of faith. The man or woman who speaks the words of Jesus into the life of another, will always be the most relevant communicator of all. Nothing beats this! As the Samaritan woman said, after hearing Jesus’ words to her at Jacob’s well, “Here is a man who told me everything I ever did” (John 4:29). It doesn’t get more relevant than that.

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