Mission And Culture In Global Context: An Overview

Mission and Culture

Describe about mission and culture, gospel and culture, and features of cultural dimensions and viewpoints in global context.

The term, Culture has been variously interpreted to apprehend the causes of events and processes of life that govern the society. The existence of Human Beings and other living elements of the ecosphere stand on certain dictums of Nature, the Community and the Administrative viewpoints that construct the customary disciplines of socio-political, legal and ethical conducts. The Religious, Academic and Professional institutes attempt to inculcate the ethos or vision of unconditional commitments toward self and other individuals and cultivate the seeds of etiquettes and communicative procedures to interact with the world (Andrew, 2015).

There is intimate relation among Mission and culture that penetrates the sense of self discipline, self-actualisation, identification, self-determination, eternal love and dignified traits of parallel feelings for everyone.  It is the supreme power who sends Himself to the world, to shower His blessings as Father, son of Deity and the sacred essence of everlasting strength for revitalisation and restoration of the communal domain of the earth. The Mission highlights the analytical doctrines of Truth of existence and the needs of Divine Spirit, prayer, Blessings of the Almighty peace, justice, morality, supreme guidance to the Followers of the Deity, sacrifice and other virtues (Jesus.Org. 2016). The Religious and social beliefs of every individual give rise to psychological tenets to deal with every form of situation faced in a particular circumstance. The mission aims to present the Biblical aspects of originality of life within the natural settings of heaven, space, soil, ground, water and the entire world of living creatures formed by the miraculous actions of God.

 There are geographical, physical, Governmental segregations that reflect the impression of horizontal or straightforward distinction of traditional and language impediments. On the other hand, there are discriminations among the social statuses of people placed in diversified sectors of regions, states, countries across the continents of the global arena. This predicts the differences in values and ideologies of mankind based on distinguished levels of economic and socio-political structure creating the psychological distance amidst the public. Thus, it builds up the vertical forms of separation standing on logical interpretation (Jandt, 2013). The miscellaneous nations having multi-dimensional cultural features encircle around the beliefs and customs of the people who seem to follow the doctrines of the contemporary views of the mission that preach the message of life, social and legal methods of working together to circulate the pragmatic expression of peace. The poor should not be deprived of the prime requisites of existence in the communal set up (www.sjweb.info, 2016). There exists an urgency to find out the cause and eliminate the roots of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, unhealthy and unhygienic situations, homelessness and seclusion, vulnerability to communal threats and other types of social and economic barriers of culture. God is the ultimate authority that governs every action of man and He symbolises harmony in his acknowledgment as the creator that reflects the concept of peaceable situation as represented in the New Testament.

Gospel and Culture

The ideals of Christianity perpetuated from the messianic activities of Jewish culture at the first century of Common period that disseminated the vision of revival and salvation across the regions of Mediterranean belt along with Roman and Italian lands. The understanding of Christian mission penetrates the concept of sanctified soul that holds the real ardour of foundation of life-force and generates the mechanism of innovativeness. The different patterns of ideals and exercises of Roman Catholicism, Protestant philosophies and Eastern views of Orthodox culture ultimately accentuate on the spreading of Christian ethics and values from the Western parts to that of Eastern regions of the world (VanderPol, 2014). The church and other pious organisations serves the real purpose of clarity of expression of arguments, opinions and speeches that stress on the significance of noble judgements and performances while learning about the submission of Christ to venerate the Deity. The people are advised to proceed in integrated direction to attain the real goals of visionary perspectives of life. The quiet and peaceable state of affairs uphold the relaxed and impeccable settings of refurbishment from varied sorts of collective and reciprocated approaches among the interface within the distinguished section of masses, other living objects and the heavenly spirit.

The congregation of people from different parts of European, Asian, African, American and other zones represent the consciousness of cultural impacts on the societal front that signifies the context of evangelism. The manifestation of the announcement of God get inscribed within the temperaments of beliefs that flourishes with the richness of generosity to abolish the pessimistic attitudes from the hearts of mankind. The people attempt to cultivate the positive effects of the supreme power amidst distinguished traditions of different nations and adopting the creative spirit of motivation and enlightenment (Herman, 2013). The influence of Hellenistic discourses on the religious events and literary impulses have been upgraded with the concept of realism and rationalised thoughts.

The appreciative aspects of Gospel refer to the factual representation of Virtuous summary of noble thoughts and actions regarding the ideologies of Jesus Christ. It is regarded as decent and moral announcement of the preaching of Christ.  Thus it serves the purpose of communicating evidence through interactive messages or statements in uttered practises as revealed in Luke 7: 22 and mentioned in Romans 10:14-17. There are also interpretation of the Gospel as the information in written pattern of expression according to the subscriptions of Luke 1:1-2. The transmission of the message embedded in Evangelism infers the features of cautionary advice to the persons on the actions and magnitudes of immorality and decadence or sinful performances as referred in John 16:8, Acts 24:25 and Revelation 20:11-15 (Gospel-culture.org.uk. 2016). There is also delineation of the Lord’s curative efforts for events of turpitude or sin in the Acts 8:29-35, Romans 3:21-26, 2 and Corianthians 5:21.

At the final step to move out of immoral deeds or regret and apologise with the responsive attitude to endeavour to follow the words of the Almighty with honest and perfect confession by believing on the voice of God clarifies the doctrines on Trust and Assurance of Faith according to the portrayed versions of the sections of Mark 1:15, Luke 13:1-5, Romans1:17, 10:9-13 and Acts 17:29-31.The expression of verses in the passages of Gospel explicitly demonstrates the subjective attachment to the sovereign power that spiritualises the intellect in conscious and unconscious states of the mental faculty (Jesus.Org. 2016).

The people are ware always endorsed to participate in praying or adoring God with newer perspectives of questing for self –attentiveness and knowledge of the Natural environment surrounding us. The awareness of treasuring habits and physical and psychosomatic behaviour while responding to conscience of inner-self and the interactive outputs of others perpetuate the actual representation of culture. This builds the solid grounds of recognizing the inner possessions and unique anticipations of trust and confidence with intelligence and wisdom of learning. The Christian ideals and principles of heritage needs to concentrate on the public concerns of wellness and empowerment of every individual to implant the sentiments and emotions of cooperative, compassionate and supportive attitudes toward the economically and socially backward classes (Harrison, 2012).

 According to the “Cultural Mandate” in Genesis 1: 26-28, there are illustrations of formation of living creatures, where the humans are fashioned in the resemblance of God’s reproduction in the form of men and women to dominate on the activities of the animal kingdom including fishes and birds, Adam and Eve being the first human beings. The mankind received the glorified consecrations of the Almighty who inspired the humans to grow and proliferate with fellow feelings of love and gratitude with shared assertiveness for others. The God recommended to germinate the sources to produce miniature Nobles while emerging out of self-centredness and submit themselves to the command of the Lord (Grimmond, 2013).. On the contrary, the “scandal of particularity” contradicts the intimacy and closeness of men and women that suppresses the feelings of faith and controversial elements of the connection between the Lord and the child, Israel nurtured through maternal feeding that identifies the human attachments propounded in the Old Testament. As per the views on, the “Word became Flesh” in John 1:14, the entire communications reflect the information acknowledged from. God to enlighten human world. Jesus Christ represents the aspirations along with the guidance and meaningful suggestions to elevate the spiritual levels of motivation and reflection of parental association with their descendants (Gospel-culture.org.uk, 2016).

The presence of the omnipotent power lies in the realisation of the supreme strength of the Divine spirit embedded within the representativeness of Father, the sacred soul and the son of God – all being included in a single entity. This signifies that Christ personifies the humanistic attitudes of patience and love with eternal bonding of love and care for the community. The Son of God carries out the dictums of knowledge to transmit among the people and establish mutual understanding and flexible relationship among each other. He embodies the intimate spiritual union with the Almighty (Andrew, 2015). Christ has addressed the varied levels of living community to travel in the self-governing and self-determining approaches to understand the perception of culture in a flexible manner. However, the modern western refinement and sophisticated views are gradually focussing toward complex procedures of scientific and technical values of civilized societies.

The contemporary opinions of the educated class reconnoitres the vision of genuine success through inventive and novel forms of challenges and experiments in cross-cultural communities. Richard Niebuhr’s conception on specified features of Christ and Culture discusses the persistent confrontation that draws out the connection between the values of Christian ethics and that of civilised society. The “Christ against Culture” portrays the honest conviction of principles of cultural morality. The opposite ideology of fidelity towards Christ and Christian associates directly contradicts the communal culture that demarcates between the fraternal relations among God’s descendants and that of the worldwide conception. The “Christ of Culture” delineates Him to be the Liberator of the community that receives all forms of serenities of expectations and desires to venerate the world. The morality of gratification, deliverance and development of society gets elevated with the synchronisation of eternal glory and peace. According to the dictums of “Christ above culture”, the conflict is presented in the form of opposition among the supreme and divine spirit and that of evil man (Directionjournal.org. 2016).

The Lord advocates the doctrines of cultural theme and order of the state and there are no positive or negative components that constructs the platform of culture. There are no ways to segregate the elegance of God and the actions of Human beings as the performances of the people are monitored by the heavenly influence. On the contrary, there lies a perplexing confrontation regarding the views on loyal attitude towards Christ and the approachability towards culture. This illustrates the concept of “Christ and Culture in Paradox” that disagrees with equilibrium and stability of immoral glimpses of principles in cultural states and the marvellous charm of the absolute power. The virtue and vice cannot co-exist to produce a twofold perception (Trevin, 2015).

The entire living community is dependent on the cultural magnitudes of social and economic benefits, happiness, precision of deeds and accomplishments, mindfulness and cognizance of accountabilities toward themselves and others. In other words, Culture constitutes the cohesive approach for realising the inner conscience, the features of spiritual elevation to understand the vital facts of lifecycle, the Creator of the Universe, the norms and values of idealistic thoughts and emotions, gratitude and love and so on. The cultural aspects of the distinct counties across the world reflects a concrete structure of living criteria while adjusting with the surroundings (Meadows, 2012). The characteristics of adaptability, cooperation, involvement with diverse categories of work penetrate the seeds of genuine culture.

The different types of interaction among the distinguished individuals and the groups of persons need to manage and exchange their opinions to fruitfully accomplish a task within a society. The communication among the different countrymen holds the foundation of inter-personal relationship to lead a team of functioning organisation that are mutually depended. The social infrastructure and technological upgradation have solidified the networking phenomena that links up inter- communal gaps. The domestic and professional environment along with the business world constitute the cultural strength of modern society (Babnik, et al. 2014).

Conclusion

The shared vision of devoted feelings with the incarnate creatures present the blessed objectives of union with the Almighty that reveals the organised, logical, and resolute platform to provide shelter to the diversified species irrespective of sexual categories, class and creed. The blissful mind gets elevated at the perception of mutual exchange of acquitted outlooks through humanism at the financial, administrative, societal, legislative, ecological, virtuous, and decent levels of communicating technique. The personality traits of  every individual represents the pattern of education received through the family customs, missionaries, Informative and Scholastic learning Centres and Vocational organisations, Universities, Health and Welfare Communities, Offices, recreational spaces, etc.

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