This last week our Siar team taught the people through the last 3 days of creation. The Siar people have been taught about God and Jesus, but they have incorporated it all into their own beliefs and it never interrupted anything in their culture or worldview. As they listened to the teaching this week, they began realize that this was different. This was not what they had always believed! This was not how they had interpreted what they had previously heard about God.
· First, God had no beginning. For many this was a brand new concept. Some have NEVER heard that, and once it was presented to them, it had to be explained and retaught over and over for 3 days. They may have been told this, but they never heard it. It was a completely new concept for them.
· Second, God is a Spirit. We know from Genesis 1:2 that God is a Spirit and thereby has no body. Everyone that we talked to believed that God was a man and that he had a body. This was another brand new concept to them.
· Third, Adam and Eve were made in God’s image (all people are made in God’s image). When they heard that God made man in his image, it simply meant that he gave them bodies like he had, and we were just like him.
After taking 3 days to teach and review what the image of God is and what it is not, The Siar were becoming aware that this teaching was different, and that the truth about God was different than they had thought it was. They couldn’t just squeeze it in to what they had always believed! It was amazing to our team to see the Siar people actually eager to know what God’s Word said, knowing that they had never comprehended it before. But with this excitement there was also the anxiety, apprehension, and uncertainty that had to come with this kind of shift in their worldview perspective. Life as they knew it was not in line with God’s Word, and they were finally beginning to understand truth from God’s perspective.
Please be praying that as they hear the teaching of God’s word, they will believe it wholeheartedly. There are many more things that are going to rock their lives, and even this coming week will reveal a number of brand new truths to them.
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