{"id":1302,"date":"2013-05-20T15:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:52:42","slug":"from-katie-communicating-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2013\/05\/20\/from-katie-communicating-clearly\/","title":{"rendered":"From Katie: Communicating Clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I asked my friend Andrea if she would tell me the story of the first man and the first woman.\u00a0 (To read the story, click here<\/a>.)<\/em>\u00a0 The tale involves a man who had a dog that could shape-shift into a woman.\u00a0 The man stayed with the woman-version of the dog, and from the two of them came all the people of the world.<\/p>\n

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Andrea and Katie making tortillas in Andrea's kitchen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In summing up the story, Andrea said, \u201cAnd that\u2019s why women aren\u2019t as clean as men.\u00a0 Because we have one rib from a man, and one rib from a dog.\u201d\u00a0 The women here don\u2019t think much of themselves, mainly due to messages such as this one that have been drilled into their heads. \u00a0They don\u2019t believe that they are good enough to talk to God; only the men (or maybe a really, really wise woman) would attempt that.\u00a0 Bottom line, they are no better than a dog.<\/p>\n

We are not the first to expose the Nahuatl to ideas from the Bible.<\/p>\n

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The cross above the village that "scares off" devils<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They throw around words like \u201cbaptism\u201d and \u201cblessings\u201d in a story of the devil eating a young girl on her way to a party.\u00a0 They have mixed in the beautiful image of God forming Eve with one of Adam\u2019s ribs into a story that makes women universally unclean.\u00a0 They know about the man in a big boat after the world was covered in water, and yet they fear rainbows.\u00a0 They know Jesus as one of the saints you can manipulate with gifts of corn and peaches.\u00a0 The Spaniards began \u201cconverting\u201d the Nahuatl as long ago as the 1500s.\u00a0 A priest still comes and blesses the surrounding mountains and valleys so that the devil will \u201cpull back a bit.\u201d\u00a0 The Nahuatl do not lack exposure to ideas from the Bible.\u00a0 What they lack is understanding<\/em><\/strong> of message<\/em><\/strong> of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Every comment I have ever made to Andrea about truth from the Word has been met by the affirmative.\u00a0 She nods her head and says, \u201cYes, that\u2019s true.\u201d\u00a0 She asks if I\u2019m afraid of the dark and I say that God will never leave those who know him and so even when I feel alone I know He\u2019s with me.\u00a0 \u201cYes, yes,\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s so true.\u201d\u00a0 I know that if I told her tomorrow that Jesus was the only way to have right relationships with God she would agree with me.\u00a0 If I said, \u201cAndrea, Jesus died for your sins and if you believe in him you will be TRULY clean,\u201d she would say I was right.\u00a0 Does that mean we\u2019re on the same page?\u00a0 Of course not. \u00a0She would still feel alone\u2014still be scared of the dark\u2014still consider herself unclean.<\/p>\n

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Katie and I with Nahuatl sisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We want the people here to know the truth.\u00a0 We want their understanding to be apart from<\/em><\/strong>, not mixed in <\/em><\/strong>with their current worldview.\u00a0 And because we feel that the burden of being clear is on the teacher, our team has resolved to learn to speak the language fluently, while we build relationships that give us the chance to be heard.\u00a0 We know that the job before us will take time and we thank you for your faithfulness to those on our team and to the Nahuatl as we labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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