CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND CULTURE: ITS RELEVANCE IN LOCAL CULTURES

Western Christianity has been a poor representation for the Christian faith and its message particularly in Asian context. While we discuss about the Gospel, Culture and their conflicts in Missions, we must not lose sight of the sovereignty of God. Christianity is a universal faith intended for the whole world. Understanding of faithful contextualization is the primacy of the gospel. A mission should look to disciple the nations by teaching them to observe all that [the Lord] commanded (Matt. 28:20) in a culture-sensitive way. In this context this research article attempts to review the various approaches used to conduct cross cultural missions with an aim to help the reader to realise the need for Africanising or Asianising Christianity than the Christianise Africa or Asia or a similar approach to the rest of the world.