My Family At TCIS

My Family At TCIS
The Ward Dorm Family of TCIS

Thursday, December 2, 2010

How do I relate to faith? How did Don Richardson relate to Faith? How do the Sawi relate to faith?

How do I relate to faith? I think that the way that I relate to faith is in believing in God. I believe in something that is not based on proof but have a strong belief in what I believe is not fake. I think that faith for something has to be "real" to you for you to fully understand. It can't be something where you believe in something where there is nothing to guide you or give you false thoughts. Instead, I think that faith is something where you need other people or even a book to guide you. In Christianity, the Bible is full of God's word about how we should live our lives. Like the Bible for Christians, there has to be something that tells you what to do and how to do that something. Faith isn't something that grows out of your own mind and you think one day that you want to believe in something that may not even be real. faith has to be a growing process towards understanding and respect.
How did Don Richardson relate to faith? Don Richardson related to faith in the same way that most missionaries relate to faith. Faith that what they are preaching to the targeted people would accept the Word that is being preached to them. Don Richardson went because of faith in the first place that the Sawi people would accept the word of hope and that they would learn what they have been doing is wrong. Don Richardson also knew that, through their culture of violence and their value of treachery, that there was something in their culture that will be related to Christ and that he would be able to use that to turn the Sawi away from their values to believing in God.
How do the Sawi relate to Faith? Through the Peace Child, the Sawi were able to relate to faith because of their custom. Through the Sawi custom of giving the Peace Child as a way of settling wars, some of the Sawi were related to God in the fact that they gave their child as a sacrifice for peace. The Sawi can relate to this because when they try and make peace with another tribe, then they will give any one of their children, or even their only child as a peace child. God gave His one and only son as a "Peace Child" and could relate to this faith through their own culture of giving their "Peace Child" as well.

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