{"id":188,"date":"2008-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-24T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T14:48:24","slug":"sounds-almost-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2008\/04\/28\/sounds-almost-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds almost American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/04\/newsAP(7292)_img.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/04\/newsAP(7292)_img.jpg\" alt=\"God`s Word can free the Manjuis from their fears.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>The Manj&uacute;i people believe in equality. <\/p>\n<p>Does that sound almost American to you?<\/p>\n<p>But they don&rsquo;t just believe all men are created equal. They believe no one should ever be unequal.<\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;No one should own more than another,&rdquo; wrote Jamie Hunt. &ldquo;No one should act differently than the rest.  Everything must be shared equally with all. Extreme social pressure and ridicule are poured out on those who refuse to conform.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This keeps people from leading, saving for the future, or making other changes in their lives. This caused some conflicts with the Word of God &ndash; for example, people were very reluctant admit that they even had the means to take the Gospel to other Manjuis. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it seems the Manj&uacute;i believers cannot get past the belief. And now the missionaries who work among them know why.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie&rsquo;s brother, Jeff, made the amazing discovery during a conversation with a Manj&uacute;i church leader.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Manj&uacute;is believe there is a hairy demon with glowing eyes and a long tail that seeks to devour any Manj&uacute;i who has more than another Manj&uacute;i,&rdquo; Jamie wrote. &ldquo;The demon will hide in the darkness and can be identified by the sound of him crunching bones.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fear of this demon has kept them in bondage for generations!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff plans to confront this belief as he teaches the Manjui church about the security of the believer. Pray that the Manj&uacute;i believers will be free from the fear that has held them back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manjui people of Paraguay don&#8217;t really believe in equality. They&#8217;re actually living in fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}