Cultural Anthropology for Missions

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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN Since we are basing our gospel on the Bible, we need to know the cultures of • Hebrews, • Greece • Roman, and • the culture into which we are entering. QUESTIONS 1. That is the great commission? 2. Mention the two components in it and what they imply in practice. 3. lf we put bibles in a balloon and sent them to an inaccessible place will it be counted as evangelism and why? 4. Explain why we consider the incarnation as the first crosscultural evangelism? 5. Why did God sent Jesus to the Hebrews and not to the Sudan? 6. That vas the qualification of Jevs to be selected for the entry of Jesus? 7. Why did God chose Paul as the apostle for the Gentiles i.e. Greek and Romans. 8. That cultures should a missionary study before he can enter into a culture as a missionary? 7
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN CHAPTER TWO CROSS CULTURAL STRATEGY When a missionary enters a new culture, being unfamiliar with the people and their culture he will experience certain problems. He has been brought up in a culture with certain ways of doing things in certain way. But in the new culture they will do the things in a different way. This will bring consternation and confusion in the mind. The effect of this can be either to experience what is called the culture shock or to a determination of undertaking to understand the people in empathy. This leads to two ways of approach to the missionary. The simplest way is the way of empathy. If a missionary is filled with the love of Christ for the people, he will experience empathy and will soon accept the way of the living of the people. He may eventually identify himself with them and be a successful missionary. On the other hand if he is unwilling to accept the people as they 8
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