{"id":558,"date":"2006-02-03T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html"},"modified":"2006-02-03T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T09:16:49","slug":"domestic-missio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Missiology (part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>So what is unique about America?&nbsp; (hmmm&#8230;The Constitution&#8230;Baseball&#8230;and???)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer to reaching a culture is not without but within.&nbsp; In the same way that the Apostle Paul used the unique cultural setting of Mars Hill we must learn to exegete American culture for it&#8217;s contrubutions to the gospel.&nbsp; Athens had a shopping mall for commerce, an intellectual elite and a spiritual side as well.&nbsp; Paul engaged the culture on its&#8217; turf and was able to pull out of the culture the keys to explaining faith in Christ.&nbsp; (Acts 17)&nbsp; Daniel and his three friends studied in Chaldean Seminary, took on the names of Babylonian gods and worked for the pagan king and experienced the power and presence of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is unique about America?&nbsp; It has been said that America has three original contributions to the world&#8230;The Constitution, Baseball and Jazz.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Churches vote and largely operate with democratic tendencies.&nbsp; Rick Warren has shown us what happens when Baseball is applied to the church and whether or not you adopt his Purpose Driven form of spiritual formation (which I do not), we learn that there is benefit to thinking through corporate discipleship.&nbsp; But what about Jazz?&nbsp; The church in America has yet to mine one of it&#8217;s national treasures for the purposes of the kingdom of God!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If we are truly going to have a Domestic Missiology, we can not ignore this truly indigenous American invention.&nbsp; There is a reason why the church in America has been impotent when it comes to truly engaging a pluralistic racialized society&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is unique about America?&nbsp; (hmmm&#8230;The Constitution&#8230;Baseball&#8230;and???) The answer to reaching a culture is not without but within.&nbsp; In the same way that the Apostle Paul used the unique cultural setting of Mars Hill we must learn to exegete American culture for it&#8217;s contrubutions to the gospel.&nbsp; Athens had a shopping mall for commerce,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Domestic Missiology (part 4) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Domestic Missiology (part 4) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So what is unique about America?&nbsp; (hmmm&#8230;The Constitution&#8230;Baseball&#8230;and???) The answer to reaching a culture is not without but within.&nbsp; In the same way that the Apostle Paul used the unique cultural setting of Mars Hill we must learn to exegete American culture for it&#8217;s contrubutions to the gospel.&nbsp; Athens had a shopping mall for commerce,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-02-03T09:16:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Robert Gelinas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Domestic Missiology (part 4) - The Jazz Theologian","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Domestic Missiology (part 4) - The Jazz Theologian","og_description":"So what is unique about America?&nbsp; (hmmm&#8230;The Constitution&#8230;Baseball&#8230;and???) The answer to reaching a culture is not without but within.&nbsp; In the same way that the Apostle Paul used the unique cultural setting of Mars Hill we must learn to exegete American culture for it&#8217;s contrubutions to the gospel.&nbsp; Athens had a shopping mall for commerce,&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html","og_site_name":"The Jazz Theologian","article_published_time":"2006-02-03T09:16:49+00:00","author":"Robert Gelinas","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html","name":"Domestic Missiology (part 4) - The Jazz Theologian","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-02-03T09:16:49+00:00","dateModified":"2006-02-03T09:16:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/#\/schema\/person\/5e3ecb360405bd8603a61c7115194e01"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/02\/domestic-missio.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Domestic Missiology (part 4)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/","name":"The Jazz Theologian","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Robert Gelinas on Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/#\/schema\/person\/5e3ecb360405bd8603a61c7115194e01","name":"Robert Gelinas","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/fbe\/fbe4a8ffc24002390e969652fba5c72bx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/fbe\/fbe4a8ffc24002390e969652fba5c72bx96.jpg","caption":"Robert Gelinas"},"description":"\"For more information visit: Jazztheologian.com Robert Gelinas is Lead-Pastor (and resident Jazz Theologian) of Colorado Community Church\u00e2\u20ac\u201da multi-cultural, interdenominational community of 3000+ followers of Christ in the Denver area. Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). Friend of God...Passionate about the Body of Christ...Lover of this thing called jazz! Please visit Jazztheologian.com for contact info., speaking schedule, videos, Facebook and Twitter.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/author\/rgelinas"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}