{"id":154,"date":"2016-05-26T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-05-26T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:04:24","slug":"chopped-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2016\/05\/26\/chopped-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopped Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chopped<\/a><\/p>\n

An animistic worldview brings adherents face-to-face with some pretty stark stuff.\u00a0 Imagine a mother birthing twins and then throwing them away.\u00a0 That\u2019s<\/em> pretty stark, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 You see, it is forbidden in some cultures to permit twin babies to live as twins are considered a bad prognostication of the spirits.\u00a0 You\u2019re probably thinking \u2018how horrid a practice.\u2019\u00a0 Yeah, it is\u2026 but it is the only world view such people have been handed.\u00a0 I wonder if this is a result of the scattering at Babel when the language was confounded and people were scattered throughout the earth \u2013something to think about.<\/p>\n

In one sense it seems such a blatant attitude towards life but on the flip side of thinking, life is highly regarded by these very ones who implement the afore mentioned practice.\u00a0 For instance, if a child dies at birth or sometime down the road, a mother will chop off a finger as a sign to show her grief.\u00a0 Although the loss of a child or any loved one for that matter is a difficult thing for us, we would never think of chopping off a finger, but these folks do.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the point I\u2019m trying to make?<\/p>\n

The point is that there are many such people groups living throughout the world today who are totally unaware that there is a creator God who offers a better worldview than such radical thinking as demonstrated amongst the unreached peoples of the world.\u00a0 They do not know because they have never heard.\u00a0 \u2026And the reason they never heard is because no one has come to tell them.<\/p>\n

We are in the business of equipping and sending those who will declare the story of God to such ones living beyond the reach of the gospel\u2026 or as we say in New Tribes, \u2018Reaching tribes; Changing lives.\u2019<\/p>\n

Joyce and I continue pouring our lives into mentoring young couples and individuals with expressed interest of turning the tide in making a difference in people\u2019s worldview by bringing them God\u2019s story of the Bible.\u00a0 We seek out those who have a heart for the Lord and want to invest their lives for God\u2019s glory in taking God\u2019s story to the millions still unreached for Christ.<\/p>\n

Your partnership in ministry allows us to continue on, seeing God raise up Harvest laborers\u2026 those who will carry on the effort to get the gospel to every tribe, language, people and nation.\u00a0 We want to thank you for your prayers, for your kind words of encouragement, and for your practical gifts of support.\u00a0 Will you now ask the Lord to open continued doors of opportunity for us to impact those who will \u2018go?\u2019<\/p>\n

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An animistic worldview brings adherents face-to-face with some pretty stark stuff.\u00a0 Imagine a mother birthing twins and then throwing them away.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty stark, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 You see, it is forbidden in some cultures to permit twin babies to live as twins are considered a bad prognostication of the spirits.\u00a0 You\u2019re probably thinking \u2018how horrid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,637,233],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","tag-new-tribes-mission","tag-worldview","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}