Lesson 9 Lesson 9 How Can They Be Heard?

MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES SYLLABUS SYLLABUS

Cultural

Understanding Culture

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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

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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