Between the video this week and the book, I was reminded of a situation our Pastor had to work with a partner church in Kenya with. Our church partners with several churches in Kenya, there was one church that lived in a very hot area, and they wanted to build a “normal church” and asked for metal sheets to build one. The pastor and elders had to be coached out of that idea into using a traditional tent, because it would have been like being in an oven.

This got me thinking about issues missionaries told me about with Japanese churches. One was that there is a mindset that traditional western hymns are what need to be sung in church, but different missionaries and younger Japanese Christians are trying to create and present Japanese worship music. I listened to some on Spotify, and it sounds great! In what ways can we present the gospel and help churches see Christ in their context and not a Western context?