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245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 88 88 From Every Nation • Overrunning the enemy territory. We must look into this vision “like a lamb in the midst of wolves.” • Having a readiness to die. This requires a reappraisal of our theology of suffering. This vision will query and question the laid-back theology of ease that has characterized the Nigerian Church over the last few years. 13 Although more missionaries are needed around the world, world evangelism will not be accomplished just by mobilizing more British or Canadian missionaries or even more Korean missionaries. As has been noted, mission involvement is one reflection of the Church’s spiritual health. From the Day of Pentecost on, the Christian Church has been the most healthy when its outreach was accomplished by an ethnically diverse team. While 11 of Jesus’ original 12 disciples were Galilean, Paul, whom the Early Church considered an apostle, grew up in Gentile territory. Some of his key assistants, such as Titus, were not Jewish at all. The Early Church grew rapidly in the Middle East, North Africa, and <strong>Southern</strong> Europe as missionaries from a variety of cultures ministered there. That process is again occurring worldwide and has the promise of bearing much fruit. Henry Venn, a mover and shaper of the 19th-century missionary movement, compared the planting of the Church in a new area to a construction project. 14 Venn said that missionaries and mission structures are the scaffolding, not the building itself. Expatriate workers and initial outreach structures are temporary and can be removed as the building moves toward completion. There are places around the world today where the scaffolding is going up as unreached people groups are being penetrated. In other areas, the scaffolding is coming down and the ecclesia or Church has become what God intended all along—a truly global community of “called-out ones.” Questions for Reflection 1. What factors might be contributing to the tremendous increase in the number of missionaries from the majority world? 2. Why are the old designations of sending and receiving countries no longer valid? 3. Why is it important to preserve the stories of majority world missionaries? 4. What advantage might a majority world missionary have in serving in some Islamic countries? 5. What are the Back to Jerusalem movements trying to do?
245187 Disc Missions ins 9/6/07 1:04 PM Page 89 7 HOW CULTURE AFFECTS MISSION Objectives Your study of this chapter should help you to: • Define culture and cultural anthropology • See why it is said that culture is learned rather than being inborn • Explain how important cultural awareness and sensitivity are to cross-cultural ministry • Evaluate the validity of the term race as a label • Understand the importance of symbols, form, and function • Know how to adapt to a new culture • Counter the statement that “Christian mission work destroys cultures” • Reflect on what it means to say, “We are all one in Christ Jesus” culture cultural universals enculturation acculturation surface level deep level of culture cultural anthropology fieldwork ethnocentrism Key Words to Understand racism redemptive analogies functional substitutes appropriate technology people blindness cultural relativity syncretism 89 form function culture shock cultural adjustment reverse culture shock inverted homesickness bicultural
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