Followers of Jesus - Think Like a Missionary!
Dan Kimball, in They Like Jesus But Not The Church, writes:
“It’s important that we think like missionaries. Instead of viewing our towns and cities as Judeo-Christian and feeling like everyone needs to automatically adhere to what we believe, we need to act like missionaries do when they enter a different culture. When missionaries enter a different culture, they listen, learn, study the spiritual beliefs of the culture, and get a sense of what the culture’s values are. They may try to discover what experiences this culture has had with Christians and what the people of the culture think of Christianity. Missionaries in a foreign culture don’t practice the faiths or embrace the spiritual beliefs of that culture, but they do respect them, since the missionaries are on the other culture’s turf…
…Christians are now the foreigners in a post-Christian culture, and we have got to wake up to this reality if we haven’t.” (p. 30)
June 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Nail hit on the head! Good carpentry!…just like Jesus