8 Ways To Engage The Culture Around You
- Start conversations
- Hang out with people who enjoy the same things you do
- Volunteer somewhere
- Tell stories
- Get to know your community by asking questions
- Invite others to join you
- Pray with others
- Address physical and spiritual needs around you
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.
And I’m afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.
Toxic Charity is a book about doing missions right. The subtitle pretty much lays it out: “How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It).” Lupton honors the mindset that compels Christians toward foreign short-term missions and inner-city projects at home, but believes that the church has failed to ask simple questions like these: Who is really benefiting? Who are we really seeking to serve? Is it the poor and those in need, or are we primarily serving ourselves?
Are Churches Any Better Than Nightclubs?
Q. What do the state, nightclubs, and worship services have in common?
A. All have rituals that people participate in willingly, though not really knowing why, and where the true self is kept safely hidden from self and others, thus empowering the institution to continue as is, without threat of revolt.
The Bible does not hide or turn from the darkest parts of life—it holds them closely. Although the church sometimes does not know what to do with these moments, our Scriptures embrace them fully.
Why Unrestricted Discipleship Resources Are the Future of the Global Church
If the answer is “yes” to every one of these questions then the resource can be legally used. But if they get to the end and need to use the resource in ways that excede the original permissions of the contract, the process begins again from “Do I have the Intellectual Property knowledge to request permission?”
Contrast this process with the one question involved in gaining legal access to a discipleship resource released under a [Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0):
Am I willing to give attribution for the resource and release what I create with it under the same license?
If yes, then the resource can be legally used. The simplicity of this process, contrasted with the previous, can be see in the second flowchart above.
10 Clues That The Zombie Outbreak Being Announced On Your Television Is Not A Hoax
3. At Starbucks, barista holds up a paper cup, reads what’s written on it, and says, “Soy latte for ‘GAAAAAH’? Soy latte? ‘GAAAAAAH’?”