Pews – Pulpits – Piano – PowerPoint

I could of been in any rural SBC church in the US.

Welcome – 3 songs – Offering – Song – Sermon – Invitation – Song

However, I think we were being set up by the M’s here given the question they gave us yesterday: “”How can we train a traditional people who “do” church very traditionally to creatively engage the culture missionally?”

In other words, what does an indigenous express of church look like in Taipei, Taiwan when traditional American style of church is what the local leaders are looking to as examples? This is a challenge not only to M’s who work cross-culturally but also church planters in the states who try to transplant _______ (purpose-driven, seeker, light candles and write your sins in the sand, etc) churches into various contexts. The point is, we must always ask the questions of contextualization so that the church grows out of the Gospel being planted among a particular people in a particular place.