one particular culture. This approach seeks to propagate a supreme culture that God has ordained for humanity, this culture could be the Hebraic culture of the Old Testament, the culture of Islam, western civilization or a Christian culture that God is gradually setting up. This is probably the approach of a multitude of missions, religions and political entities. They set out to convert other societies to Christ or their religion and in turn to the accompanying culture. Christianity came to Africa in western wrappings and attempted to stamp out the African cultures like an illegitimate fire. Indigenous peoples were warned that their culture was evil and that to be Christian one had to be liberated from their culture. This resulted in the crystallization of a particular culture as an absolute for all. Some have tampered this notion down after the upheavals that follow this trend of thinking and have now sauntered in with the notion that ‘certain cultural forms allow for greater Christian use’ this again is just another fallacy that leads us to the same results. Every culture has been formulated under different circumstances answering different questions and each culture has had to deal adequately with these. It follows religion and Christianity has to answer the same questions and these questions differ with context, thus there is no cultural form that can be wholly transposed to each differing context and be better suited for Christian use in differing contexts, it is the challenge of the missions office to relate the gospel in any given culture understanding the questions
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