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JESUS ON CHURCH PLANTING:GOSPEL CONTEXTUALIZATION

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ENTRUST – JESUS ON CHURCH PLANTING: GOSPEL CONTEXTUALIZATION© 2015 Precept Ministries InternationalPublished by Precept Ministries InternationalP.O. Box 182218Chattanooga, TN 37421www.precept.org

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JESUS ON CHURCH PLANTING:GOSPEL CONTEXTUALIZATION

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7:00 WELCOME

7:15 CONTEXTUALIZATION WITHOUT COMPROMISE | KAY ARTHUR

8:00 CONTEXTUALIZATION CASE STUDIES | JEREMY LUCARELLI

8:45 BREAK 9:00 CONTEXTUALIZATION PART 1 | ERIC MASON

9:00 CONTEXTUALIZATION PART 2 | ERIC MASON

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10:00 CONTEXTUALIZATION PART 3 | ERIC MASON

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11:00 PANEL DISCUSSION | ERIC, KAY, AND JEREMY

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Kay Arthur founded Precept Ministries International with her husband Jack in 1970 with the vision to establish people in God’s Word. She is an international Bible teacher, award-winning author of more than one hundred books and Bible studies. Kay was recently honored with the National Religious Broadcasters’ prestigious Hall of Fame award for her invaluable contribution to the field of Christian communications, exhibition of the highest standards and evidence of faithfulness in Christ. She is the recipient of the National Religious Broadcasters’ “Best Television Teaching Program” award in 2004 and 2009 for her daily TV, radio, and internet program, Precepts For Life™. Precept Bible studies are in nearly 180 countries and 70 languages.

Eric Mason is a church planter, pastor, speaker, author and founder and lead pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia, PA. Additionally, he currently serves as president of Thriving, a ministry dedicated to aiding ethnic minorities to be resourced and trained for ministry to the urban context. Eric holds a Doctoral degree in Ministry In Complex Urban Settings from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He resides in Philadelphia, PA with his wife Yvette and their son Immanuel.

Jeremy Lucarelli believes that the gospel changes everything. He serves as the Director of Training and the Director of Entrust: Disciple-making School at Precept Ministries International. The Lord saved Jeremy through inductive Bible study when he was 17. Since then, he has had the opportunity to serve as a barista, educator, author, pastor, and inductive Bible study trainer, equipping churches to make disciples with inductive Bible study throughout the United States. In all things, his calling is to glorify God by making disciple-making disciples, establish people in the Bible, build a culture of godly men, and plant gospel-centered churches.

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Disciple-making Multiplication Cycle

Contextualization is not—as is often argued—“giving people what they want to hear.” Rather, it is giving people the Bible’s answers, which they may not at all want to hear, to questions about life that people in their particular time and place are asking, in language and forms they can comprehend, and through appeals and arguments with force they can feel, even if they reject them.

Sound contextualization means translating and adapting the communication and minis-try of the gospel to a particular culture without compromising the essence and particulars of the gospel itself.” —Tim Keller, Center Church p. 89

JESUS APOSTLES ANTIOCH(SYRIA)

DERBE/LYSTRA ICONIUM ANTIOCHAN

(PISIDIA)

PHILIPPI THESSALONICA BEREA ATHENS CORINTH

EPHESUS COLOSSAE

LAODICEAHIERAPOLIS

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KAY ARTHURChurch Planting | Contextualizing Without Compromising


John 16 (NASB)

27 for the Father Himself loves you,

because you have loved Me and

have believed that I came forth

from the Father.

28 “I came forth from the Father and

have come into the world; I am

leaving the world again and going

to the Father.”

29 His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are

speaking plainly and are not using a

figure of speech.

30 “Now we know that You know all

things, and have no need for anyone

to question You; by this we believe

that You came from God.”

31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now

believe?

32 “Behold, an hour is coming, and

has already come, for you to be

scattered, each to his own home, and

to leave Me alone; and yet I am not

alone, because the Father is with

Me.

33 “These things I have spoken to you,

so that in Me you may have peace.

In the world you have tribulation,

but take courage; I have overcome

the world.”

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John 17 (NASB)

1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting

up His eyes to heaven, He said,

“Father, the hour has come; glorify

Your Son, that the Son may glorify

You,

2 even as You gave Him authority over

all flesh, that to all whom You have

given Him, He may give eternal life.

3 “This is eternal life, that they may

know You, the only true God, and

Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

4 “I glorified You on the earth, having

accomplished the work which You

have given Me to do.

5 “Now, Father, glorify Me together

with Yourself, with the glory which I

had with You before the world was.

6 “I have manifested Your name to

the men whom You gave Me out of

the world; they were Yours and You

gave them to Me, and they have

kept Your word.

7 “Now they have come to know that

everything You have given Me is

from You;

8 for the words which You gave Me

I have given to them; and they

received them and truly understood

that I came forth from You, and they

believed that You sent Me.

9 “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask

on behalf of the world, but of those

whom You have given Me; for they

are Yours;

10 and all things that are Mine are

Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I

have been glorified in them.

11 “I am no longer in the world; and yet

they themselves are in the world,

and I come to You. Holy Father, keep

them in Your name, the name which

You have given Me, that they may be

one even as We are.

12 “While I was with them, I was

keeping them in Your name which

You have given Me; and I guarded

them and not one of them perished

but the son of perdition, so that the

Scripture would be fulfilled.

13 “But now I come to You; and these

things I speak in the world so that

they may have My joy made full in

themselves.

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14 “I have given them Your word; and

the world has hated them, because

they are not of the world, even as I

am not of the world.

15 “I do not ask You to take them out

of the world, but to keep them from

the evil one.

16 “They are not of the world, even as I

am not of the world.

17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your

word is truth.

18 “As You sent Me into the world, I

also have sent them into the world.

19 “For their sakes I sanctify Myself,

that they themselves also may be

sanctified in truth.

20 “I do not ask on behalf of these

alone, but for those also who

believe in Me through their word;

21 that they may all be one; even as You,

Father, are in Me and I in You, that

they also may be in Us, so that the

world may believe that You sent Me.

22 “The glory which You have given Me

I have given to them, that they may

be one, just as We are one;

23 I in them and You in Me, that they

may be perfected in unity, so that

the world may know that You sent

Me, and loved them, even as You

have loved Me.

24 “Father, I desire that they also,

whom You have given Me, be with

Me where I am, so that they may

see My glory which You have given

Me, for You loved Me before the

foundation of the world.

25 “O righteous Father, although the

world has not known You, yet I have

known You; and these have known

that You sent Me;

26 and I have made Your name known

to them, and will make it known, so

that the love with which You loved

Me may be in them, and I in them.”

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John 15 (NASB)

18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

20 “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21 “But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 “He who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 “If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 “But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They haTed Me wiThouT a cause.’

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

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JEREMY LUCARELLI Church Planting | Contextualization Case Studies


THESSALONICA | ACTS 17:1-9

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ATHENS | Acts 17:16-34

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CORINTH | Acts 18:1-18

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EPHESUS | Acts 18:19-19:41

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ERIC MASONChurch Planting | Contextualization Part 1

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