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Around the world, Christian churches face the challenge of folk religions. Missionaries brought formal Christianity and assumed that traditional religions would die out as the Gospel displaced animistic beliefs and practices. Today, it is clear that old ways do not die out, but instead remain largely hidden from view. People affirm orthodox theologies, but go to witch doctors, shamans, diviners,...

1:1–5). We take seriously the incarnation of Jesus Christ, who was both fully God and fully human (1 John 1:1–3). This mystery of God in human form is the basis of our salvation. It is also the analogy we use to understand divine revelation in human languages, universal truth in particular contexts, and the Christian messenger in non-Christian cultures (Figure 1.3). We affirm the reign of Christ over all creation, and the establishment of God’s kingdom to be the goal of divine history. Mission takes
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