Starbucks: The Way I See it # 196
2007 June 15
This was written on my Green Tea cup this moring from Starbucks:
The greatest leader is a servant. Don’t be a boss. Be a real leader, a servant leader. A servant leader is a winner. Even when he loses everything, even when he loses his life, a servant leader wins it all.
My question is, can this be understood out side the Gospel? How can a world of coffee drinkers to busy for Jesus understand this?
I drink coffee….I’m not too busy for Jesus.
Can the gospel be understood outside of culture is perhaps a more appropriate question.
“Can the gospel be understood outside of culture is perhaps a more appropriate question.”
You got that wrong, can culture be understood outside of scripture? If you want to complete a study of man, start in Genesis and work your way through.
that’s mighty confident of you. Even genesis is a piece of literature that is culture bound. Every piece of literature, even the bible which we hold to be divinely and providentially inspired, comes to us through the human experience and that experience is one that is bound by culture…
The incarnation is culture bound….the early church was culture bound…etc…..much of reformed theology…and any theology for that matter is culture bound…
I fear many who want to believe that scripture is God’s book (and I believe it is inspired) believe that it somehow came to us in a vacuum from some far off distant heaven…
Am I wrong on that one too?
Believing in Jesus results in a humble confident joy.
The scriptures are to be understood within the culture it was written in, if that is what you are saying, then I agree. However, I am sure you are saying more then that. Please expand on your comment, and what you specifically mean by culture bound.
here is a paper that explains the interconnectivity of the gospel and culture….
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/files/SteveHu-ETS-final.pdf
I do not want to read a paper, I have enough papers to read, just tell me in your own words.
Our Sunday School class is studying a book called Lead Like Jesus which elaborates on all those points. It is hard to read those phrases and not think of Jesus.
This was on my cup today also containing green tea