The difference is between a bride who is unjustifiably preoccupied with herself—who she is, what she has done, what she is doing, and all that she proposes to do—and one who is justifiably and humbly preoccupied with the Groom—the inexplicable grandeur of Who He is and the inestimable magnitude of what He has done.

Thanks for the reminder.

Ed

This comes in play when dealing with contextualization. A definition from 1938 might be helpful: “An indigenous church, young or old, in the East or in the West, is a church which, rooted in obedience to Christ, spontaneously uses forms of thought and modes of action natural and familiar in its own environment. Such a church arises in response to Christ’s own call. The younger churches will not be unmindful of the experiences and teachings which the older churches have recorded in their confessions and liturgy. But every younger church will seek further to bear witness to the same Gospel with new tongues.”