Worldview

 

    One of the first responsibilities of a Strategy Coordinator is to understand the people he or she is seeking to reach with the gospel. Gathering demographic information is a good start. But we must go deeper to understand the "worldview" of the people so that we can be better prepared to communicate with them. When missionaries do not take time to understand the culture and worldview of the people, they will make the mistake of delivering the gospel in ways appropriate to their own culture and "foreign" to the culture they wish to reach. This is a great hindrance to the planting of indigenous churches. It can even become a serious barrier to the gospel as people assume that Christianity is a Western religion. Questions we need to ask to understand worldview include:  What are their basic beliefs about life, God and the spiritual world? How do they process information? How do they express themselves? What do the people in this society actually do? With whom do they do it? Who makes decisions? How do they receive information? and How do people in this society decide what is right?

 

    Please pray for us as we seek to understand the worldview of the Kuy People of Cambodia. Pray that we will ask the right questions of the right people. Ask the Lord to give us great wisdom so that we can bring the gospel in ways appropriate for their culture and worldview. Ask the Lord to help us choose the Bible stories which will best communicate Biblical truth to this group of people. We need God's guidance to discover the "bridges" for the gospel in this culture.