Comments on: Leslie Newbigin’s Theology of Cultural Plurality http://www.krisispraxis.com/archives/2006/08/leslie-newbigins-theology-of-cultural-plurality/ To Understand Truth and to Attain the True Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:53:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sivin http://www.krisispraxis.com/archives/2006/08/leslie-newbigins-theology-of-cultural-plurality/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Sivin Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:58:31 +0000 http://krisispraxis.ath.cx/archives/2006/08/leslie-newbigins-theology-of-cultural-plurality/#comment-628 "The congregation as hermeneutic of the Gospel The priority of the life of the community in mission The Church, living in the power of the Spirit, is the privileged place where the Spirit bears witness and draws men and women to Christ" This is one of the lessons I've learnt from Newbigin which I believe in strongly and yet constantly struggle to see how this can be "fleshed" out in practice. I wonder as much effort is put in with more hairloss or grey matter appearing who is changed more, the congregation or the pastor who thinks this is worthwhile to see come to some "glimpse" of reality. :-) “The congregation as hermeneutic of the Gospel
The priority of the life of the community in mission
The Church, living in the power of the Spirit, is the privileged place where the Spirit bears witness and draws men and women to Christ”

This is one of the lessons I’ve learnt from Newbigin which I believe in strongly and yet constantly struggle to see how this can be “fleshed” out in practice. I wonder as much effort is put in with more hairloss or grey matter appearing who is changed more, the congregation or the pastor who thinks this is worthwhile to see come to some “glimpse” of reality. :-)

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