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Church of God IndustriesThe Cross of Change

The plight of many American Indians who accepted Christ and made the decision to follow His teachings was that there âwas no halfway pointâ instead, separation was required. When an Indian fully surrendered to Christ, he observed the Sabbath, attended church, dressed in white manâs clothing, sent his children to school, and built a house. The missionary reduced the Gospel to a verbal proclamation only, where the culture of the convert was disregarded. When the Gospel becomes only a verbal proclamation, âit gives a feeling of superiority of the Christian religion and culture over the non-Christian religion and cultureâ A far less destructive approach to missionary work would have been contextualization, which is based upon mutual respect in the relationship between races, culture, where their converts became alien to their own people, cult religion and cultures. God does not want us to be aliens to our cultureâonly aliens to sin. In contrast, most missionaries preached a complete separation from Native American culture and lifestyle.


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Producer: Church of God Industries
Keywords: Herbert W Armstrong; Worldwide Church of God; Church of God Industries; Religion; Cults; Native American

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

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