Ripe for Harvest

154 • R IPE FOR H ARVEST

Seminar Group Discussion 1. Summarize what you believe the Bible teaches us about the freedom that Christ won for us on the Cross. Why is this freedom in Christ an essential principle in allowing each culture room to contextualize the Gospel in their own expressions? 2. What are the essential principles of culture that will be important to us in our church plant? 3. In the culture where we are planting a church, what elements are moral, which are immoral, and which are amoral? 4. What specific ways can we better contextualize the Gospel where we are so that the “community” may better understand the Gospel in their own language and ways?

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