This Sunday, May 15, is the Fifth Sunday of Easter
This week’s sermon will be: Done!
This week’s readings are:
Message: Cyril and Methodius – Speaking the Word in Context
May 11 – Cyril and Methodius (brothers)
800’s AD – The Church is not just legal, it is official.
- Political
- Religious
King Rostislav of Moravia (Parts of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine)
Many Christians have arrived in our midst, some Italian, some Greek, and some German, and they have spoken to us in their different ways. But we Slavs are simple people, and have no one to teach us the truth …. Therefore we pray you to send us someone capable of teaching us the whole truth.
Cyril and Methodius figured out a way to write Slavonic (proto-Cyrillic)
- Bible
- Liturgy
Opposition
God’s Word is Eternal and Universal
Contexts Change
How do we communicate the message of Jesus? How do we worship? How do we catechize?
A call to bring God’s Word to our context.
Some Helpful Principles
- Simple is good.
- Teach the truth – the whole truth
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Law
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Gospel
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Knowledge of the Scriptures
- Worship matters
- Love your neighbor
A Post-Christian World
- Translators
- Witnesses
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