One of my favorite writers on Adult education, in an almost too casual way, cuts to a root problem in the CBF context—the quasi-denominational not really a Para-church, movement/mission agency. “We teach the way we have been taught until we stop long enough to examine how we are teaching and decide to do otherwise” (Jane Vella, On Teaching and Learning pg. xv). My addition to this statement is that to few of us—including churches, seminaries, Para-church organizations, and movements—have stopped and awakened to the reality of our global context and decided to “do otherwise”. Here is the kicker—our local context is now a global context. When we begin to realize this, then we will question our assumptions regarding knowledge, power, teaching, identity, influence and the direct correlation between these assumptions and our theology.
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I would be very interested for an elaboration on the comment: “a root problem in the CBF context—the quasi-denominational not really a Para-church, movement/mission agency.”
Hey, the “root” problem that I was pointing to was actually not that the CBF context is quasi-denominational not really a Para-church, movement/mission agency. The problem, as with most church organizations, is that we haven’t stayed connected to our context. Our context is always changing and as the church, we need to be aware and contextual.