{"id":987,"date":"2018-09-24T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=987"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:44:09","slug":"a-new-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2018\/09\/24\/a-new-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting in literacy class with four or five grandmas is an interesting way to learn about village life. \u00a0For some reason the hard work that they\u2019ve done with their syllables loosens their tongues, and by the time class is done they are usually extremely chatty.\u00a0 They color in their workbooks and chatter away.\u00a0 It is extremely fast-paced, with several commentaries going at the same time.\u00a0 I feel proud of myself if I can keep up with one topic before it segues with no apparent transition (to me) into the next theme.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Working on our syllables in literacy class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday\u2019s gab session included a great lament about the current state of things among the Nahuatl youth.\u00a0 There is no respect for their elders; they don\u2019t listen to advice.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t marrying, just fooling around and then expecting the older ones to raise the children born out of wedlock.\u00a0 The men aren\u2019t providing for the women, and they are staying at home longer and longer, expecting their mothers to continue to make their food and wash their clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ladies got fairly worked up, genuinely concerned about the fate of this generation.\u00a0 They said that God would punish them\u2014and already was\u2014for not following the prescribed behavior of the \u201cones that came before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrea copying her name, which she now can write completely from memory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This was when Andrea, one of the new believers spoke up.\u00a0 She\u2019d been fairly quiet during the conversation, but now jumped in.\u00a0 \u201cActually, there is a new teaching here now,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cA teaching that is not what the ones before said, because they didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t know the truth, but now it is being taught here\u2026about God and what he says is right\u2026and how one man stays with one woman forever and how to live and do what is good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ladies, hard at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was impressed with Andrea\u2019s boldness, speaking up for the truth and aligning herself with it.\u00a0 Of course, everyone knows she is one of the ones who go to the meetings, but she is part of a culture that likes to downplay differences, not stand out.\u00a0 And certainly not go against the status quo, calling the ancestors\u2019 ideas into question.\u00a0 But Andrea is part of another culture now.\u00a0 And that culture is called to be a light in darkness and speak truth into confusion and doubt.\u00a0 So that is what she did.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conversation drew to a close and the ladies left the building, still chit-chatting away.\u00a0 As I watched them go, my heart was full of gratitude for the work God is doing here\u2014for the guidance, sanctification, help, and wisdom he provides for his children\u2014and that a handful of people from Las Moras are now counted in that group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sitting in literacy class with four or five grandmas is an interesting way to learn about village life. \u00a0For some reason the hard work that they\u2019ve done with their syllables loosens their tongues, and by the time class is done they are usually extremely chatty.\u00a0 They color in their workbooks and chatter away.\u00a0 It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"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":[125,448,652,4,416],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","tag-culture","tag-ethnos360","tag-literacy","tag-ministry","tag-village-life","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}