"The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same—that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around him in the West.”
E. Stanley Jones
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Quote of the Week
Our quote this week comes from E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), a Methodist missionary who worked in India. One of the barriers often faced when bringing the gospel cross-culturally is the assumption that to follow Christ one must become American, or whatever ethnic group the missionary comes from. Both the idea of abandoning one's mother culture as well as assuming a new one, especially one that is often viewed poorly, are distasteful to people. The joy that follows the discovery that a someone can follow Christ and remain Kurdish, Thai, etc. is infectious.
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