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e. A Roadmap to Freedom: Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles (see Appendix)

5. An un-homogenized Gospel

a. Reaffirm the priority and primacy of difference in all mission and discipleship.

b. Declare without equivocation the freedom and liberty granted to all in Christ.

c. Overcome your own ethnocentrism in light of God’s amazing grace, cf. Acts 10-11.

d. Learn what to decode, and how to encode the Gospel to another people group.

E. The Church as steward (locus and agent) of the unleashed Gospel!

Great indeed is the baptism offered to you. It is a ransom to captives; the remission of offenses; the death of sin; the regeneration of the soul; the garment of light; the holy seal indissoluble; the chariot to heaven; the luxury of paradise; a procuring of the kingdom; the gift of adoption. ~ Cyril of Jerusalem. “Catechetical Lectures.” (Greek, mid-fourth cent. A.D.). Robert F. Lay. Readings in Historical Theology . Grand Rapids: Kregel Publishing, 2009. pp. 39.

1. The Shekinah has reappeared in our midst as his temple, Eph. 2.19-22.

2. The people ( ekklesia ) of the living God congregate here: Christ's own from every kindred, people, nation, tribe, status, and culture, 1 Pet. 2.8-9.