tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624038.post1470065707128495816..comments2023-09-05T08:55:56.301+00:00Comments on On Earth as in Heaven: Mission, Maori and the Anglican CovenantStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04475918926743850643noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624038.post-59189906952100480192011-12-03T01:11:40.520+00:002011-12-03T01:11:40.520+00:00Your post and comment are interesting.
I find the...Your post and comment are interesting.<br /><br />I find the Anglican communion is top heavy with cultural suppositions rather than the the message of the Kingdom.<br /><br />Advent gives us the opportunity to realise the Immanuel, the fact that God met us in our own lives.<br /><br />I remember from the distant days of my health studies a book:<br />http://www.amazon.com/Rural-Development-Putting-last-first/dp/0582644437<br />It discussed how we get the message of cultural development and the imposing superior values of 'we know better'. Unless we empower at the root and enable then it will fail<br /><br />Health promotion is also subject to if individuals cannot relate then the message will fail.<br /><br />How much do we need to dump the cultural baggage of church. Re-invent the message of Salvation. OK some call it the emergent church, but we need to interface with all that is positive.<br /><br />Thanks and God Bless,<br />LorraineLoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13451661719135798637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624038.post-9327987826963372402011-12-03T00:50:45.172+00:002011-12-03T00:50:45.172+00:00changes made as suggestedchanges made as suggestedStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04475918926743850643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624038.post-8782768649901949522011-12-03T00:37:00.490+00:002011-12-03T00:37:00.490+00:00Steve
thanks for the correction re Maori self desc...Steve<br />thanks for the correction re Maori self description - which i think only emphasizes the dangers of central diktat ;o) <br /><br />interestingly just been reading this argument in Walls applied to the need to re-indigenise English Christianity int he very interesting 'faith of the English'by Nigel Rooms http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faith-English-Integrating-Christ-culture/dp/0281061114/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322872597&sr=1-1Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04475918926743850643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14624038.post-15593026452765729672011-12-03T00:09:20.945+00:002011-12-03T00:09:20.945+00:00Maori talk of themselves in the singular. So it is...Maori talk of themselves in the singular. So it is more accurate and respectful if your post was titled "Mission, Maori, and the Anglican Covenant."<br /><br />I think you are astute in your linking of Walls, he did some research on early Maori religious movements and mission history, as evidence of his thesis that mission needs to be understood not as colonial imposition, but as local adaptation,<br /><br />stevespirit2go teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04275018079934031322noreply@blogger.com