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.
The Book of Isaiah
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Scholars generally claim the prophetic book is not belonged to or written
by one author. A prophetic book can mean multiple collections from
different auth...
15 years ago
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