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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN with (Acts 17:16-34) ‘the unknown God”, a revelation in their own culture. As the mission went on, Christian message has come to be encoded fully in the Greco-Roman culture. Since all European cultures are closely associated with the Greco-Roman culture we can fully understand the Christian message in the letters of Paul. Some of these needed reinterpretation to the present generation due to the wide gap which developed during the past 1900 years. Now we come to a new land, into a totally different culture, we need to re-learn many of those techniques. The Holy Spirit is striving to establish principles today for an effective mission. But there will be Judaism and Orthodoxy even today that wants to maintain the form – ‘having a form of godliness, but denying its power’ (1 Tim 3:5) . The technique is clearly described by Paul again: “To the Jews I become like the Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law, I became like one under the law, like one not having the law, so as to win those under the law. To the weak, I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men that by all possible means I might save some, I do all this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its blessings.” (1 Cor 9:19-23) Cross cultural Struggles of Paul Corinthian Church - Fight against the liberals Sex : 1 cor 6 12— Marriage: 1 Cor 7 Food sacrificed to idols: 1 Cor 8 Idol feasts 1 Cor 10:14 Market meat: 1 cor 10 23 101
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN Praying with head covered: 1 Coe 11 Tongues: 1 Cor 14 Behavior in worship: 1 Cor 14 Ephesian Church Put off the older self, new attitude, put on the new Husband and wife relation Eph 5:22- Slave master relation Eph 6 :5- Colossian Church Eating and drinking festivals Cole 2:16; 3:18- Galatian Church Law and its validity: Gal 2:15 (justification by faith alone) 3:1 (You foolish Galatians) What then is the purpose of the law: Gal 3:19,23-35;10 Observations of days and seasons: Gal 4:9 Circumcision: Gal 5:3-- 6:13-16 Call for freedom and its proper use: Gal 5:3 Commonality of all man’s sin Gal 5:20-20 Fruit of the Spirit Gal 5:22-25 6. Christian response to Paganism God is a God of all nations. This is implied in the Abrahamic Covenant term, “by you all families of the world will bless themselves.” (Gen 12:3). Though Israel lost sight of their calling as a priest to the nations, the prophets were fully aware of this factor. So Amos (9:7) cries out; “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the people of the Sudan?”, declares the Lord. “did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Camphtor and the Syrians from Kir?” Later Peter made this great discovery under heavy pressure 102
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