Curious Christian

I was reading in the news that, “As the United Nations has made a small but significant step forward towards declaring caste-based discrimination a human rights violation, Indian Christian leaders have called on the churches to confess that the caste system is still being practised also within them.”

Now, before we tut, tut the continuance of caste discrimination within the Indian church, have you ever considered just how much missional ecclesiology is drawn from the experience of Indian missionaries? The experience that growth is faster Christians contextualize into the subcultures (aka castes) rather than challenge subcultural boundaries? Have you considered that the homogenous unity principle was hashed out in a caste situation?

Now understand, I am not saying contextualization is of no value, I think it has much value. But part of the contextualizing process should surely be contextually challenging cultural boundaries?