{"id":883,"date":"2011-05-17T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/?p=883"},"modified":"2011-05-17T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:55:54","slug":"killers-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/2011\/05\/17\/killers-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Killers of men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-884\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/2011\/05\/17\/killers-of-men\/senfishers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-884\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/files\/2011\/05\/senfishers-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Senegal fishermen\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/files\/2011\/05\/senfishers-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/files\/2011\/05\/senfishers.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the Mwinika language the common term for fisherman literally means &#8220;killer of fish&#8221; Jesus said to Peter and Andrew, &#8220;Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.&#8221; The idea in Mwinika is that Jesus told Simon and Andrew &#8220;Whatever you did with the fish, now you will change and do that with people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the Mwinika, what they did with the fish was to kill them. &#8220;Follow Me, and I will make you killers of men.&#8221; Hmmm? Somehow that doesn&#8217;t communicate the idea that Jesus had in mind. When translating this verse into Mwininka, Phil and Elin Henderson had to communicate &#8220;as you previously searched and tried to find fish, so now you will search and try to find men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mwinika people are hearing evangelistic Bible lessons right now. Read their story online:ntm.org\/magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taken from NTM@work Vol.69 &#8211; No.4 &#8211; May 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Mwinika language the common term for fisherman literally means &#8220;killer of fish&#8221; Jesus said to Peter and Andrew, &#8220;Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.&#8221; The idea in Mwinika is that Jesus told Simon and Andrew &#8220;Whatever you did with the fish, now you will change and do that with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dean-hess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}