Charles Kraft

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  Issues In Contextualization

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  The gospel is to be planted as a seed that will sprout within and be nourished by the rain and nutrients in the cultural soil of the receiving peoples. What sprouts from true gospel seed may look quite different above ground from the way it looked in the sending society, but beneath the ground, at the worldview level, the roots are to be the same and the life comes from the same source. What does a vibrant indigenous faith in Jesus look like? How do we communicate the essential meanings of the gospel in forms appropriate to a particular people at a particular time?

  Issues in Contextualization, Charles Kraft’s latest book, presents his own insights on this topic from decades of experience teaching and ministering around the world. Significantly, Kraft’s analysis includes and exploration of spiritual power, an aspect frequently neglected in such discussions. This volume is an update of Kraft’s classic work Appropriate Christianity. It contains fresh presentations of previous articles and new insights into topics such as insiders (followers of Jesus outside the religious culture of Christianity) and power encounter.

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  Evangelicals Guide To Spiritual Warfare (Reprinted)

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  Eighty percent of the synoptic gospels deals directly with the war against Satan. Yet evangelicals tend to ignore or gloss over this major theme. In this accessible, comprehensive guide to spiritual warfare, the author, an evangelical seminary professor and former missionary, warns of the danger and identifies the biblical foundations of this crucial topic. With clarity and insight, he also

  * exposes the myths surrounding spiritual warfare
  * reveals what demons are and what they actually do
  * presents the rules for engaging the enemy
  * shows how to conduct deliverance and inner healing sessions

  Based on years of firsthand experience and study, this must-have resource demonstrates that forces are at work around us–forces behind spiritual problems that can be overcome in no other way.

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  Worldview For Christian Witness

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  In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.

  “The whole purpose of the book is to help cross-cultural witnesses learn how to discover a people’s worldview, to understand it, and then present the gospel in such a way that it leads to deep worldview change.-Darrell Whiteman, Vice President of Mission Education, The Mission Society

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  Appropriate Christianity

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  Appropriate Christianity examines contextualization in three crucial dimensions: truth, allegiance and spiritual power. With eighteen contributing authors including Sherwood Lingenfelter, Paul E. Pierson, Paul H. DeNeui, and Paul G. Hiebert, this compilation is a must-read for the student of contextualization.

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