Quotes from Crespo

These are a few quotes and occasionally my thoughts on quotes from Orlando Crespo's Being Latino in Christ: Finding Wholeness in Your Ethnic Identity, Downers Grove, IL: InterVaristy Press, 2003.

from p 73 --
"Jesus was not acultural or nonethnic. The Son of God was incarnated into a specific culture. He recognized and ahered to many cultural guidelines and boundaries, even though he was always stretching them."

Jesus often kept within the cultural boundaries because He knew that it was the best way to serve and reach out to those within that culture. People respond better to love and understanding than a forcible "I like you and want to help you, you'd be better off like me" attitude.

from p 88 --
"In the end we cannot stop ourselves from functioning as cultural beings. As we interact with one another and with God, all of these external in internal cultural patterns are present whether we want to admit it or not."

from p 90--
"as followers of Christ we must invite God to reveal all of our cultural values, beliefs and customs so that they can be conformed into his image."

My culture isn't the only one, nor is it the right one.