worship wars, holy kisses, and names for God

the link above is to the itunes university site to get the lecture series i am talking about in this post. actually, i am not really going to talk about it.. if it interests you, listen for yourself. it is only three lectures.

but the underlining thought behind this lecture series is a concept that i have been interested in for awhile. the idea being how to translate my faith to others of a completely different socio-economic and theoistic background effectively. just to give y'all an idea of what i am thinking about (well, this and the old testament.. but i think thats obvious)

what words can be used? how do the Bible stories come across? what aspects of the local szene can be found in or related to the scripture? where is the 'hook' to get people interested?