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I recently went through all the books I have in my closet and was surprised at how many of them I had not actually read yet, or read all the way through. I guess this is the unfortunate price of buying more than one at a time. Anyway, I recently found my copy of "Radical Reformission" by Mark Driscoll and have been finding it extremely relavent to discussions I have been having lately. I just finished reading this part where he was talking about how some churches value tradition over innovation and that this can impede the gospel from going out. The example that imediately popped into my head (showing how ecclectic my head is, most likely) was that of translating the bible. If we didn't translate the bible from the greek and hebrew, who would be able to read it? We need to translate the gospel into modern day vinacular in much the same way. He also mentions the opposite error of valuing innovation over tradition. When this happens it is inevitable that the gospel will be innovated into oblivion. The gospel MUST nessasarily cause offence to sinful humanity with which it is at odds. So we must stay true to orthodox, traditional christian belief while being inovative in our gospel presentation. On the cover of "radical reformission" it says "reaching out without selling out" and that is exactly the right way to phrase it I think.