The faculty of Mid-America have been talking about the work of the church and its efforts to be "outward" facing, to be looking out in mission, and specifically what it means to contextualize the message: to speak concretely and clearly to people in categories that they know.   

But in doing this, do we risk setting ourselves up to dumb down the gospel, to dumb down corporate worship, to do something that is somehow not fitting for the worship of the Triune God?  

How can we navigate some of these waters? Joining once again around the table to elaborate on this are Rev. Mark Vander Hart, Rev. Andrew Compton, Dr. J. Mark Beach, and Dr. Alan Strange.