{"id":3965,"date":"2009-10-13T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2009-10-13T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:39:13","slug":"this-is-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2009\/10\/13\/this-is-a-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a cure?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Guanano
Guanano children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the cure is worse than the disease, is it really a cure?<\/p>\n

Or let me put it this way \u2026<\/p>\n

A Guanano woman wanted an end to the yelling matches she and her husband were having over their finances. So she went to a \u201cchanter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guananos traditionally go to chanters with their problems. The chanters perform an incantation and \u2013 the Guananos believe \u2013 influence the situation in the favor of the person who hired them.<\/p>\n

The chanter did her thing, and the woman paid her with one month\u2019s supply of food.<\/p>\n

Can you guess where this is going?<\/p>\n

Her husband came home and wanted to know where all their food had gone. The answer caused another yelling match.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 does that really seem like a good idea?<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not telling you this because I want you to think the Guananos are foolish for going to chanters. What they\u2019re doing is no more foolish than any of a number of things people in our culture do just because our culture says it\u2019s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

The reason I\u2019m telling you this is because you are helping give this woman and other Guananos hope that things can change in the future. Two Guanano Bible teachers, Mario and Getulio, are encouraging people to find the answers to their relationships in God. Or more precisely, to have a relationship with God, and to work on that relationship.<\/p>\n

Your involvement in our ministry is helping tribal people like Mario and Getulio and the people they minister to know Christ and make Him known.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are helping give the Guanano people opportunities to change as a result of a growing relationship with Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[4],"tags":[46,1167],"class_list":{"0":"post-3965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-choices","8":"tag-guanano","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}