Published on
February 22, 2012
The Nairobi Statement on 91ÁÔÆæ and Culture presents four central principles of the relationship between worship and culture.

How does worship relate to culture? How is worship in culture, but not of it? The Lutheran World Federation's Study Team on 91ÁÔÆæ and Culture met in Nairobi in January of 1996 and produced the . The statement presents four central principles of the relationship between worship and culture:

1) 91ÁÔÆæ is transcultural (91ÁÔÆæ has certain dynamics that are beyond culture).

2) 91ÁÔÆæ is contextual (91ÁÔÆæ reflects local patterns of speech, dress, and other cultural characteristics).

3) 91ÁÔÆæ is counter-cultural (91ÁÔÆæ resists the idolatries of a given culture).

4) 91ÁÔÆæ is cross-cultural (91ÁÔÆæ reflects the fact that the body of Christ transcends time and space).

Read the statement in and .