I am currently reading End of The Spear. I am enjoying the book a lot. In a previous post, I mentioned the movie. It had a lot of gaps that are filled in here. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to enter mission work or to know what it's like to reach "indigenous people." This has opened my eyes to a whole new world of Christian work. I don't think any of us can go into an "alien" culture and really understand it well without having spent years living there. I am reminded of my own naivette when I started working in Prison Ministry. The offenders (whom we called "Men in White" as that was the color of their prison uniforms had a way of thnking that was alien and shocking to me. I realized that it would be difficult for me to identify with many of them. In that ministry (KAIROS) we learned to "Listen, Listen, Love, Love." Without being critical, I think a great many Christians arrogantly think that Christianinty in an alien culture should look like a Norman Rockwell painting. My experiences and those I'm reading as related by Steve Saint, tell me God meets His children where they are.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
End of The Spear
I am currently reading End of The Spear. I am enjoying the book a lot. In a previous post, I mentioned the movie. It had a lot of gaps that are filled in here. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to enter mission work or to know what it's like to reach "indigenous people." This has opened my eyes to a whole new world of Christian work. I don't think any of us can go into an "alien" culture and really understand it well without having spent years living there. I am reminded of my own naivette when I started working in Prison Ministry. The offenders (whom we called "Men in White" as that was the color of their prison uniforms had a way of thnking that was alien and shocking to me. I realized that it would be difficult for me to identify with many of them. In that ministry (KAIROS) we learned to "Listen, Listen, Love, Love." Without being critical, I think a great many Christians arrogantly think that Christianinty in an alien culture should look like a Norman Rockwell painting. My experiences and those I'm reading as related by Steve Saint, tell me God meets His children where they are.
