Every non-Christian culture has the common grace to recognize some of the work of God in the world and be attracted to it, even when Christianity in other ways offends the prevailing culture. So we must neither just denounce the culture around us nor adopt it. We must sacrificially serve the common good, expecting to be constantly misunderstood and sometimes attacked. We must walk in the steps of the One who laid down his life for his opponents.
Contextualization is NOT 'giving people what they want' but rather it is giving God's answers (which they may not want!) to questions thay are asking and in forms that they can comprehend. "Contextuaulization" 'incarnates' the Christian faith in a particular culture.
-Tim Keller
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