Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Transformed By Christ

In a diverse or multi-cultural Church, one needs to set Christ above rigid forms, cultural norms, correct speech, appropriate dress, protocol, and so on. Take, as an example, what could (and does) happen if, say, someone from a country village leads the prayers on a Sunday morning. Judge them by rigid forms (et cetera), and their prayer may well be a "fail". How could they dress like Haile Selassie? How could they omit the prayers of intercession? How could they pray like the local bus driver? Did one detect dispensationalism? and so on. Yet judge them by whether they saw Christ in their prayer, and one might have witnessed something magnificent. The whole spirit of the event may be transformed.

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