Eight Deadly ByProducts of Neglected Worldview Identification and Use

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Eight Deadly By-Products of Neglected Worldview
Identification and Use

• South America
• AGMs
• January 2008

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• Increased generic witnessing, preaching and
  church planting habits that do not engage and
  speak to the worldview of the people within the
  EPG
• Increased knowledge of the Bible without
  significant maturity in Christian lifestyle and
  propagation of the Gospel according to New
  Testament principles and practices
• Syncretized Christian beliefs and lifestyles
• Ritualism and legalism in the churches

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• Rejection of the Gospel as irrelevant to them
  within their cultural, worldview setting
• Inability of believers to relate the Gospel to
  the lost within the EPG in relevant cultural and
  linguistic ways that would result in spiritual
  and lifestyle changes
• Inability of believers in the churches to see and
  understand ethnic distinctions that are barriers
  or bridges to the Gospel
• Increased backdoor losses in the churches