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Lesson 9 Lesson 9 How Can They Be Heard?
MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES SYLLABUS SYLLABUS
Cultural
Understanding Culture
Homework ReviewHomework Review
Assignment: Read “Understanding Culture” by Lloyd E. Kwast
Pretend you are an “alien” visitor newly arriving to the Teen Mania campus. It is 5:30 a.m. in the morning.
What activities do you observe at 5:30 a.m.? (It is Corporate Exercise time.) Describe the culture.
5 pts.
Homework ReviewHomework Review
Assignment: Read “Understanding Culture” by Lloyd E. Kwast
Pretend you are an “alien” visitor newly arriving to the Teen Mania campus.
When walking into a Teen Mania classroom, you may observe several interesting things. (Remember, you are still an alien.) Pick any class. What do you see? Why does the speaker dress differently? Why are many people seated while one stands? Why is the speaker’s voice amplified? How are people distributed throughout the room?
25 pts.
Homework ReviewHomework Review
Assignment: Read “Understanding Culture” by Lloyd E. Kwast
Pretend you are an “alien” visitor aka missionary.
If you’ve been to a different country or countries, pick one. (If you haven’t gone yet, pick an outreach in America that you participated in.) What do you remember about the Behavior? Values? Belief? Worldview? of this culture.
20 pts.
Homework GradesHomework Grades
Record Grades◦ Not turning in homework just grade◦ Weeks 7, 8 & 9 only
Any exceptions PLEASE talk to me after class◦ Record your points during MOVIE◦ Do not tear sheets!◦ Two in front & two in back
Understanding Culture
End of the Spear
What is done? BEHAVIOR
Most superficial layer; ◦ST missions
Culture is the “superglue”◦Gives sense of identity
Identity that is obviously observed is behavior.
Understanding Culture
End of the Spear
What is best? VALUE
Teen Mania valuesPre-set decisions that a culture makes
between choices commonly faced.Helps those within culture know what they “ought” to do to “fit in”
Understanding Culture
End of the Spear
What is true? BELIEFS
Can you find confusion when values and behavior are different than underlying beliefs?
Difference between operating beliefs and theoretical beliefs
Understanding Culture
End of the Spear
What is real? WORLDVIEW
Answers the deepest questions of our soul: Who am I? Why am I here?
Sometimes when a new system of beliefs is introduced, but worldview remains unchallenged, values & behavior reflect the old system
Movie Review
End of the Spear
What is done? BEHAVIOR What is best? VALUESWhat is true? BELIEFSWhat is real? WORLDVIEW
Mark 8:35
“For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake and the sake of Gospel, will save it.”
Jim Elliott paraphrase
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he
cannot lose.”
The rest of the story of the 4 martyred missionaries:
http://www.thetravelingteam.org/?q=node/110