Good evening you all.
So wish I could send some of this beautiful rain down
South and see our country blossom. As Namibians, rain always fascinates us and
we never get tired of it. We celebrated 29 years of marriage with some friends
at a beautiful place outside Siem Reap. This week we will celebrate Anton’s 18th
birthday as well. My goodness time flies.
Please pray for a dear friend Phoebe Alaras Sampang
as she struggles daily with cancer.
Another dear friend Susan Rabanes is also struggling
with cancer.
Ouma Paula is doing well, praise the Lord.
Please pray for us as we will be going to the jungle
this Friday. Friends from Phnom Pehn will join Anton and me to a visit to the
beautiful people of Phnom Chi. It is rainy season and lots of water and mud is
on the menu. Took me the whole week to fix my bike in order to ride again. Pray
for safety and open hearts.
While reading The Lords of the Earth with Anton, we
came to this part that made me think. We are in the book where poor Stan was
being setup to be killed as well. The locals started to prepare their arrows
already in order to kill him. I think he knew deep in his heart that it was
coming but had no fear to present the gospel to these tribal guys.
Listen to this:”” Seven hundred years ago, Pope
Gregory III tried to resolve all problems of cross-cultural communication for
Catholic missionaries by a single sweeping pronouncement that “People of other
religions are, after all, seeking after God in their own way. Let us therefore
accommodate our message to their beliefs.” Even so, many Roman Catholic
missionaries who have encountered firsthand some of the more sinister faces of
paganism—such as child prostitution in the temples or the burning alive of
widows with the corpses of their husbands—find the problem not so easily
resolved to the satisfaction of their consciences. In sharp contrast, some
Protestant theologians view the gulf between paganism and Christianity as
unbridgeable. Catholic attempts at “accommodation,” they say, have at times
produced hybrid creeds scarcely recognizable as continuations of historic,
biblical Christianity.
In the words of one spokesman: “History suggests, I
believe, that when Christian proclamation does not adapt to culture but demands
total change and makes the decision very hard, sometimes entailing martyrdom,
the result is that belief becomes deep-rooted, and deviation is less when winds
of social change come along later.” Stan Dale, beyond all doubt, was a
confirmed disciple of this latter view. On the basis of his own experience with
other tribal cultures, perceived in the light of a strongly evangelical
background, Stan fully expected Yali religion to prove itself totally
incompatible with Christianity.
Richardson, Don. Lords of the Earth (pp. 214-215).
Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Love to you all
Rossouw-clan
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