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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN JESUS From Heaven Celestial Culture EARTHIANS Human Culture Since Earthians had more than one culture God prepared a particular nation, prepared them to receive the Word and then sent his Son into it. This nation happens to be the Jewish nation. Thus Jesus entered the Jewish culture, identified himself with the Jews, lived their life and delivered the good news to them which was he himself. There fore the gospel is revealed and embedded in the matrix of the Hebrew culture. But the gospel itself is supracultural. It is important for us to distinguish between the cultural aspects of the message from the message itself. Failure to do this has been the cause of much discord in the church right from the inception. Early in the life of the church Paul had to fight the Judaisers who insisted on gentiles to follow the Jewish cultural 3
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN practices in order to be Christians. Disciples were sent to all over the worlds . They did not preach Judaism. They preached the gospel and embedded them into the culture of the tribes wherever they vent. We have different churches all over the world with different forms of worship, rituals, ceremonies, dressing ups, clergy structures, architectural styles etc. But the content is the same the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We do not have the details of their methods, except for one culture. This is given in great detail in the book of the Acts of the Apostles and in the letters of the early fathers. Thus the first four books of the New Testament may be considered as the embedding of the good 4
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