1. The topic that I will write about is on homosexuality and how this subculture is ignored marginalized, or ostracized by the Church as a whole.
- Discuss the gay, lesbian, and transgender community
- The gay community as a culture
- The gay community in culture
- The gay community spiritually
- Discuss the church community
- The church views historically towards other marginalized subcultures
- The church views historically towards the gay community
- Discuss homosexuality as it relates currently to the church community
- Questions of inclusion and exclusion
- Issues of the power
- Separation in the church
- The Bible needs to be looked at in context
- Church should cross all cultures not condemning a culture of a certain sexual orientation
- Stress the insufficiency of all humanity
- Gospel is to for all people
- Church would be accepting of all sexual orientations and promote community awareness and integration
- Church would promote diversity in the leadership including age diversity
- Encourage participation in cross cultural events
2 comments:
Joe - I'm glad you'll be addressing these questions. A couple thoughts are remember the paper is 3,000 words long, what you have here could be a lot longer. So try to keep your focus narrow. What particularly about the gay community (As a context) are you looking at, and how then ought the church address it (bevans) and then finally, in a third section show some activities or practices to get at this question. One thing,might be to look at the gay community as an embodiment of bevans countercultural model, you could potentially argue for ways in which that community is more gospel-like than the church and then pull from that specific practices etc, that the church could embodied taking the gay community as a model. In either case, you have some creativity here and I look forward to reading the paper.
You are right, and I am writing on Bevans' Countercultural Model. It does fit best. Thanks, Wess.
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