Saturday, January 21, 2006
11:31 pm
Dear (in alphabetical order) Cyrus, James, Marilyn, Yizhen and Zhuang Mao, =)
This post should have been done last week (or was is two weeks ago?), but procrastination got the better of me.
If you remember, Chunxiang and Cyrus shared with us the results of the survey that we did during the Esword camp. I would just like to share with you guys how different Evangelism is in many other parts of Asia (mostly the third world countries, but including developing countries like China).
While films, radio, television and video are becoming more common in Asia, the most effective methods still sound more as if they came from the Book of Acts! The more effective evangelism is done face-to-face in the streets. Most native missionaries walk or ride bicycles between villages much like the Methodist circuit riders did in America's frontier days. Street preaching and open-air evangelism, often using megaphones is the most common way to proclaim the Gospel. Sometimes evangelists arrange witnessing parades and/or tent campaigns and distribute simple Gospel tracts during the week-long village crusades. Since the majority of the world's one billion illiterates live in Asia, the Gospel often must be proclaimed to them without using literature. this is done through showing films on the life of Jesus, and also using casettes, flip charts and other visual aids to communicate the Gospel.How different it is indeed and how heartwarming! And if you would recall, street-E and pamphlets/books are the amongst the most unpopular methods in Singapore.
You were blessed by Jocelyn
