Mukhanyo’s Bible college consultation - 2017

#8 Teaching within divergent church contexts
Students must discover biblical behaviours and practices. They must discuss and debate cultural practices as well as social and personal behaviour. Focus areas must be the new life in Christ, a visible testimony of transformation.

A Christian ethos, pathos and logic must be developed.

• The ethos as an appeal to ethics as a means to convince people of the character or credibility of the persuader.
• A pathos as an appeal to emotion, a way of convincing people by creating an emotional response.
• And a logos to appeal to people’s logic to persuade them by reason.

This must all be done with patience, understanding, communication and respect for non-homogeneous situations.

(Dr David Beakley, senior pastor of Christ’s Church in Polokwane, SA.)

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