4 August 2008
Ethnentisity
Posted by hpshaiti under: Missiology .
Interesting side note in my devotional reading this morning. The apostle Paul in writing to the Colossians (4:11) mentions several men who are with him in Rome and then notes, “These are the only Jews amoung my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to me”
This is the same Paul who says that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither free nor slave. But even for Paul there’s something comforting, comfortable, about being with those of his own background and culture!
Parenthetically, for me as an MK (missionary kid) the question is what is my culture? Who are my people? But I really do often find myself enjoying the fellowship of fellow MK’s! We understand one another. I also feel more ‘at home’ with people of African decent – Haitians, Caribbean Islanders, or Africans. We are marked, just as Paul was, by our culture.
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