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4. The core of our authentic faith

a. Going Back to the Future: A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future (see Appendix)

b. Center and Circumference: Substitute Centers (see Appendix)

c. No Compromise Allowed: There Is a River (see Appendix)

5. An un-commercialized Gospel

a. Don’t sell to customers, but rather bear witness to all nations, Matt. 28.18-20

b. Redefine success as faithful contextualization to all cultures/people groups, not in terms of artificial external measurements

c. Recognize the indispensable role of the Holy Spirit in all authentic mission, Acts. 1.8

d. Beware of simony and sons-of-Sceva-ism

D. An unleashed Gospel will never be homogenized!

1 Cor. 9.22 (ESV) – To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

1. Homogenous, or diverse?: the definition of “homogenize” (ethnocentrism and cultural bigotry run amok, Gal. 5.1)