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- To challenge LWEC to step out of our ethnocentrism.
- To distinguish our Asianness from our Christianity, that the latter might not be reduced to culture and religion.
- To understand cultural blessings: How God has uniquely gifted the Asian American.
- To understand cultural sins: How we as Asian Americans uniquely fail.
- To encourage ethnic diversity within LWEC, especially in the English-speaking congregations.
- To require a greater (or at least a different and new) dependence on God as we obey him in unfamiliar ways.
- To promote more equal footing--linguistic and cultural--among missions team members.
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We looked at Acts 13: 1-3 this Sunday at the marks of a missionary church. He pointed out very interestingly that the Luke lists these names to show the diversity of their leadership. Antioch was in Asia minorish. Barnabas was from Cyprus. Simeon called Niger was probably from northern Africa. Lucius of Cyrene was from Cyrene...northern Africa. Manaen grew up with Herod, probably higher social status. and Saul...a hebrew of hebrews from Tarsus.
The question raised is this, if we cannot cross cultural boundaries at home to spread the gospel, how can we hope to do missions abroad.
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