Ezekiel 22:30

"I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none”

From Background Notes [BN] for Mar 5th & 6th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What strategies would the Church adopt that would adapt its faith to the new world without leaving behind the core values that gave Christianity its distinctive and non-negotiable identity?

Outside the western experience of the Gospel, missionaries had always faced the experience of cultural gaps when they embarked on fresh initiatives to newly encountered people groups. The work of Bible translators, for example, faced the ongoing task of rendering the sacred texts in the many native languages of their audiences of foreign lands. Such work wasn’t just about finding the right words or the proper grammar but involved the “disconnects” — the gaps — in cultural and social customs. Guided by the tools of the social sciences and cultural anthropology, Christian linguists bridged the gap with creative solutions in their resulting translations.[BN,1]

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