"Christianity is a Western religion." "Jesus is the white man's God." If you have tried to share your faith with a Chinese friend, or a Thai, Japanese, or Korean one, you have heard it.
The gospel keeps landing as an import, a foreign religion carried in by colonialists. Pastor Steve Cioccolanti, who grew up in Buddhist Thailand, shows the one key to reaching any unreached people, modeled in the Book of Acts, confirmed by research, and mostly ignored by the church today. Paul used it with the Greeks. John used it in the first line of his Gospel. It explains Korea, Hawaii, and the revival among the Chinese.
Then he opens the oldest continuously written language in the world and reads Genesis in it: create, first, happiness, desire, migrate, righteous. Whoever drew those characters 4,500 years ago knew about a garden, two people, a forbidden tree, and a lamb.
"God must be a native God to the Native people."
Watch it before your next conversation with a friend who thinks Jesus is foreign.
