Week 4--Bevans, Chapter 4 (Translational Model)

I don’t think everybody is really just like me underneath their cultural garb. Sure, there is an inner human essence that we all share, but culture runs much deeper than most people think. Culture is not like the clothing one wears, it is like the skin on one’s back. The clothing we put on is Christ (Gal 3:27). And as we don the apparel of Christ, we don’t try to completely hide our naked cultural selves, but rather we accentuate certain parts and hide others. We should highlight the positive aspects of our cultural image, while deemphasizing the negative aspects.