RELEVANCE: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
-adaptation
-incarnational living as opposed to attractional
-understanding
-relevant to Jesus
-method changes, message remains without compromise
-communicating in the language of the culture
-others focused
Paul’s famous line: “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”
The idea of being relevant to culture and people is a wonderful idea. In some circles this is called, “contextualization,” the idea that we are taking the gospel and putting it into a context that the receiver will understand. I wrote an essay to get my …

My wife and I have been hanging around these folks from the Mosaic Community on Sundays since we’ve been in Nashville. Mostly, we’ve just been chillin’ with some cool people and talking about things that interest us (and listen to others talk about things too). Oh, and Mindy sings a bit.
A little bit ago they did a series of talks about “Threads.” This is how they introduced it:
threads: the values from the ancient scriptures that are at the core of God’s story and at the core of who Mosaic desires …