"Can I get off the bus? Can I stand outside myself and look at my way of thinking as a critic of it? More specifically can this book, one among millions of books which we call the book, the Bible, call into question the whole way in which I, as a member of this society, understand the world? This is a point at which the experience of a foreign missionary has something to contribute. [...] [As] I have mentioned earlier, a portrait of Jesus can be happily accommodated in the premises of a Hindu missionary establishment, because Jesus has been painlessly incorporated into the Hindu worldview. The foreign missionary knows that this is not the conversion of India but the co-option of Jesus, the domestication of the gospel into the Hindu worldview. He only slowly begins to realize that the same thing has happened in the West. Jesus is understood in the light of the assumptions which control our culture. When 'reason' is invoked as a parallel or supplementary authority to 'Scripture' and 'tradition', what is happening is that Jesus is being co-opted into the reigning plausibility structure. But the business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history."
-- Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society