When I put on a pair of shoes, what does that mean? I mean, what does it really mean? The task of navigating cultural meaning and letting communication fall within the right context is a huge challenge for missionaries. Here is how you can pray for balanced contextualization:
- Pray for missionaries to understand what they don’t understand (so they can ask the right questions)
- Pray for missionaries to be understood, even when they miscommunicate.
- Pray for missionaries to slow down and take in the setting
- Pray for missionaries to courageously engage error with truth, knowing that some will mistake this for cultural ignorance or insensitivity.
