{"id":3354,"date":"2019-02-04T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2019-02-04T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:12:23","slug":"we-dont-speak-japanese-%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%aa%9e%e3%82%92%e8%a9%b1%e3%81%95%e3%81%aa%e3%81%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2019\/02\/04\/we-dont-speak-japanese-%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%aa%9e%e3%82%92%e8%a9%b1%e3%81%95%e3%81%aa%e3%81%84\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Speak Japanese – \u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3092\u8a71\u3055\u306a\u3044"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We Don\u2019t Speak Japanese – <\/strong>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u3092\u8a71\u3055\u306a\u3044<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My teen years were spent living on the banks of the Amazon River with my missionary parents. Yes, I have piranha, electric eel, alligator, peacock bass and monkey-hunting stories. And then there was that anaconda incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I digress. Let me get back to my story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One night the generator for our community went down. I was assisting missionary mechanic, Bernie Ketchum, when he found the problem and realized some welding needed to be done. Though I didn\u2019t speak Portuguese yet, I was appointed to take the part to Manaus. They had me memorize phrases to explain what needed to be done. It was three simple sentences. All I needed to do was memorize and repeat them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I headed up the Amazon River in my little homemade speedboat. During that 2-hour trip to the repair shop, I silently repeated those phrases over and over again. It\u2019s going to be a piece of cake,<\/em> I thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found the repair shop, walked up to the counter, carefully unwrapped the part needing repair and laid it down in front of the mechanics. In my best \u201cTarzan\u201d Portuguese I repeated the three sentences I had memorized. No one said anything. I repeated them a second time. A crowd of mechanics on the other side of the counter stared at me and listened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally one elderly mechanic jokingly said, \u201cWe do not speak Japanese here.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without another word, I picked up the part from the counter, carefully wrapped it back in the oily cloth, and walked out the door and back to my little speedboat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was going to take someone with fluency to get the job done. Missionaries all over the world can relate to my story of a first attempt to communicate in another language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language shortcuts, memorizing phrases and learning a low Tarzan level of language is never going to get you the fluency you need to share God\u2019s Word and His story of love, grace and salvation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discipleship that leads to maturity requires fluency in the heart language of a people group. It is a long-term commitment. There are no shortcuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were part of an unreached people group, isn\u2019t this what you would want?
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