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Contextualisation – an explanation
(DOC)	Dr. Phil Parshall gives us another helpful explanation of the concept of contextualisation in a church planting situation. A very thorough work.
Muslim Contextualisation
(pdf)	International Journal of Frontier Missions online journal discussing the issue of contextualising for the Muslim world
Contextualisation in Paul’s teachings
(article)	The missionary principles of Paul and how they could be applied today
Contextualisation
(article)	Gospel Communication article on how to make the message relate to the culture
Communicating wisely with the world
(article)	How to relate to the culture around us
AD2000’– Contextualisation links
	AD2000 has a large link list of articles and resources that discuss‚ define and model contextualisation
AD2000’– Contextualisation among Muslims
	AD2000̸’;s large link list of articles and resources that discuss‚ define and model contextualisation in the Muslim context
newWway.org
(website)	Essential insights for communicating in relevant ways to the modern world.
The X Spectrum
(article)	Gospel Communications article defining the contextual position of Christian websites
How to encounter a new culture
(article)	A helpful article for beginning research on a new culture
American Cultural Assumptions
(article)	An article helping to expose some of America/western cultural assumptions
Contextualisation
(pdf)	International Journal of Frontier Mission article on the use of contextualisation in missions
10 ways to avoid becoming a missionary
(article)	I am reminded of a very funny TV sketch of many years ago: the late (Jewish) comedian Marty Feldman attempting to get good terms from an insurance agent ‘to insure himself against the danger of becoming Jewish’. What terms would be offered‚ perhaps‚ against the awful fate of becoming a missionary? OK‚ we are not all called to be cross-cultural missionaries in person. And the mission field does start outside our front door. Or at the end of our modem. But it remains true that there are still huge needs overseas which can only for the foreseeable future be met by cross-cultural workers from outside those countries. And‚ err‚ it’s a funny thing‚ but there is one gender which seems twice as good at hearing God’s voice‚ if their numbers overseas are a reflection of it. Mission statesman and author Stewart Dinnen’s short article is just a little bit challenging.
Global Mapping International
(website)	A range of CD’s‚ maps‚ and overheads including ‘World of Islam’ which contains a number of books by contextualisation expert Phil Parshall
Paul and the Contextualization of the Gospel
(article)	Study by Michael Depew.
Lifting up the Fatwa
(DOC)	Dr. Phil Parshal shakes the C5ers with this new article called‚ “Lifting the Fatwa”. A must read for contextual church planters!
The Methods of Jesus
(article)	Scroll down – it’s not the top item.
The Engel Scale
(article)	Understanding the way people move up a scale of spiritual understanding.
More Engel Scale
(article)	‘Tell it often by Bill Bright and Mark McCloskey
The Gray Matrix
(article)	A very helpful modification of the Engel concept. It is also explained in the context of web evangelism‚ in the down loadable RTF 34k file Manifesto for the Future.
Indonesian Contextual Fellowship
(pdf)	Check out the story of our Indonesian contextual fellowship video project!
Internal or External
(doc)	This document discusses what is more important. Does the external appearance of a person have as much value as the internal change?
From C1’– C6
(pdf)	Comparing Approaches used in the Muslim World. The C1’– C6 compares and contrasts types of ‘Christ- Centered-Communities’ (groups of believers in Christ)
Contextualisation forum
	When the indigenous people of a community think of the Lord as their own‚ not a foreign Christ; when they do things as unto the Lord meeting the cultural needs around them‚ worshiping in patterns they understand; when their congregations function in participation in a body‚ which is structurally indigenous; then you have an indigenous Church” (Alan Tippett‚ in Lidorio 200’)

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