{"id":6571,"date":"2016-08-03T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:29:57","slug":"world-news-briefs-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6571","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this issue: The highest guru
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  1. INDIA: Celebrating Christ as the Highest Guru<\/li>\n
  2. NEPAL: Witch Doctor Refers Man to Church Planter<\/li>\n
  3. INDONESIA: Younger Leaders Unite<\/li>\n
  4. WEST AFRICA: Slave Wives of the Gods<\/li>\n
  5. IRAN: Azeri Christians Arrested<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Greetings,<\/p>\n

    Recently, while hanging out with coworkers where I tutor, I felt like the foreigner who never fits in. Yes, they spoke English, but I didn\u2019t understand the way they used the words<\/a>. Their subculture may have begun in 1996, but the recently launched smartphone app has helped it take off and is even helping people fall in love with their own cities<\/a>. One Texas seminary used it to hold a two-hour party<\/a> that attracted 200 people, six of whom came to Christ. It\u2019s not just an American thing, either; people are over the world are joining in. Our friend Stephen Davies<\/a>, former missionary to Burkina Faso but now in London, is hooked. Have you guessed what I\u2019m talking about?<\/p>\n

    This and the stories below got me thinking about the gospel, church, and culture<\/a>. The Church and Culture blog reports on a study of America\u2019s four Gods<\/a> and another on religious literacy (take the test<\/a>). American or not, how well do you know your own culture and its subcultures? Do you tend to assume we have the same values, or speak the same language?<\/p>\n

    With any culture, we are also challenged to ask what can (or should) be used as a bridge for the gospel, and what can\u2019t or shouldn\u2019t? Missiologists differ on the answers. Is it contextualization, or is it syncretism?<\/p>\n

    Our first story, below, provides a good case study. What do you think? Feel free to share your comments on our website<\/a> or Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Writing from the North Country<\/a> (which has a culture of its own),<\/p>\n

    Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In this issue: The highest guru INDIA: Celebrating Christ as the Highest Guru NEPAL: Witch Doctor Refers Man to Church Planter INDONESIA: Younger Leaders Unite WEST AFRICA: Slave Wives of the Gods IRAN: Azeri Christians Arrested Greetings, Recently, while hanging out with coworkers where I tutor, I felt like the foreigner who never fits in. … Continue reading World News Briefs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}