Thursday, October 7, 2010

Contextualization of the Lord's Supper

A missionary in our class shared yesterday how the Indians contextualize the Lord's Supper. As coconut is commonly used in nearly all Hindus religious occasions, so the converted Hindus use coconut as sacrament element in the Eucharist (Holy Communion).

Instead of breaking bread, they break the coconut. They drink the coconut water and eat its flesh in remembrance of the Lord's suffering for the world. This, perhaps, is one of its kinds of contextualization - read into the text for its original meaning vs. bring its meaning into the context.

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