the exact opposite happened: the Gospel was confused with culture, so that the message was not only to turn from sin to God through Yeshua, but also to abandon one’s culture and become estranged from it. In some parts of the world the missionaries lived (and still live) in a self-created ghetto, the “mission compound.” When God touched a native and gave him a new spirit, the missionaries brought him into the compound and gave him a new culture (usually Western). James Michener describes this approach