New Word! Contentualization

By
Jason Robertson
Posted in: Exposition, Missional

by Jason
Concerning this whole contextualization debate, I was talking to a good friend of mine today who said that that it seems that some people are confusing contextualization with contentualization. He explained that the real issue is not how a person is contextualizing but if a person is compromising the content of the gospel. The content of Scripture is more important than the context in which you preach it. It doesn’t matter if you adapt your speaking style to a certain culture or adapt your music style to a certain generation or adapt your attire to a certain climate — as long as nothing immoral or heretical is done. But what does matter is whether the truth is preached. It’s the content of the gospel that is important.

I asked him if “contentualization” is a real word and he assured me that it was not… but it should be! I agree. But what do I know…

Other posts on “contextualization.”
2008 Shepherds Conference
Important Quotes
Mohler’s Call to be Counter-Cultural
Trendy Pastors
Current Challenges
Know your Audience

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About the Author

Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers. Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University. You can hear his sermons and read his manuscripts on sermonaudio.com. Just follow the link to "sermons" at the top of this page.