How Shall They Hear?

1. How Shall They Hear? These graphics are illustrations concerning the concepts of Worldview, selected from those prepared for Lesson 10 of this title in the course Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Please note: The slides in this file contain graphics that are grouped images. If you would like to change colors or fonts or move or add to the slides, you will need to select the image and ungroup it. The Ungroup command is on the drawing toolbar. Click the Draw button and then Ungroup.(Often there are multiple groupings and therefore you may have to ungroup numerous times.) If you would like to add a slide to you own presentation, you may Select All and then copy and paste the image from a slide into your file. Or you may open this file and yours at the same time and in the thumbnails view, drag a slide from this file directly into your presentation.

2. The Dimensions of Culture Experiences Beliefs Behavior Products Worldview Decisions Values Experiences Feelings

3. Social Subsystem(e.g., Family, Education, Kinship, Social Control Language Subsystem Etc. Worldview Technology Subsystem Religion Subsystem Economics Subsystem

4. Level of Satisfaction Culture Shock Adjusted Bicultural Person Tourist Want to stay Want to go home Time Culture Shock is a sense of cultural disorientation in a different society.

5. Surface-Level Culture (Patterned Behavior) Deep-Level Culture (Worldview Assumptions)

6. People (Society) Culture Surface-Level Behavior What we do, think, say or feel either consciously or unconsciously, mostly habitually but also creatively Surface-Level Structure Cultural patterns in terms of what we habitually do, think, say or feel Deep-Level Behavior Assuming, evaluating and committing mostly habitually but also creatively: 1. Concerning choosing, feeling, reasoning, interpreting and valuing. 2. Concerning the assigning of meaning. 3. Concerning explaining, relating to others, committing ourselves, and adapting to or deciding to try to change things that go on around us. Deep-Level Structure(Worldview) The patterns in terms of which we carry out the assumptions, evaluations and commitments of deep-level behavior. Patterns of choosing, feeling, reasoning, interpreting, valuing, explaining, relating to others, committing ourselves and adapting to or deciding to try to change things that go on around us.

7. A Three-Culture Model of Missionary Communication S = Source M = Message R = Respondent S M R The “Bible Culture” 1 3 2 S M R S M R 4 The Missionary’s Culture The Respondent Culture

8. Tonga World-View Exalted Living Dead: Famous, well-known leaders Forgotten Dead: No one remembers their names Illness or killing spirits Created Spirits Leza: God Possessing or medium spirits Living Dead: Existence after burial Living Living: Existence prior to burial Unborn Living: Existence prior to birth

9. Framework for the Analysis of Religious Systems Organic Analogy Mechanical Analogy High Religion Based on Cosmic Forces Magic and Astrology Folk Natural Science High Religion Based on Cosmic Beings Folk or Low Religion Folk Social Science Other Worldly Unseen or Super-natural This Worldly Seen or Empirical

10. Western Two-Tiered View of Reality FaithMiraclesOther-Worldly ProblemsSacred Religion Excluded Middle Sight and ExperienceNatural OrderThis-Worldly ProblemsSecular Science

11. A Holistic Theology GOD Cosmic HistoryThe ultimate story of the origin, purpose, and destiny of the self, society, and universe. Truth Encounter Other Religions Human HistoryThe uncertainties of the future, the crisis of the present, and the unexplainable events of the past. The meaning of human experiences. Power Encounter Animistic/Spiritism Natural HistoryThe nature and order of humans and their social relationships, and of the natural world. Empirical Encounter Secularism