Outlined Transcript:

Hello everyone. I just wanted to pick up where we left off in 2025, talking through the supremacy and the sufficiency of the written word of God in missions. I want to share with you some different meditations, ideas, and teaching topics that I've employed in my recent teachings or that I'm preparing for future classes.

I've got a class coming up in a few weeks on intercultural discipleship: how to make biblical disciples in various cultures without accommodating those cultures or compromising the gospel in order to communicate well. It is about knowing how to rightly teach the word that transcends culture and transforms culture. That is what I call the transcultural gospel.

The Wrecking Ball and the Renovation

The gospel is a servant to cultures in so far that it can be like a wrecking ball in a demolition project. It can flatten the bad parts of culture; it can completely raze them to the ground in those places that are inoperable or irredeemable. As Paul says, "all Cretans are liars." There are certainly some cultures and aspects of various cultures that are so far gone, so far abandoned to God, that they can't be redeemed in the particularities of what they believe. Sometimes they need to be broken down by the law and then by the gospel, and then something new must be created in their place.