Reaching Japanese for Christ Academy/Culture Specific Evangelism 201

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Culture Specific Evangelism 201

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  • 75 Lessons

An ten-week course that builds on Culture Specific Evangelism 101 to explore principles for presenting a non-western cultural gospel within a Japanese context. This course explore more deeply :
  • Japanese religions
  • Japanese worldview
  • Cross-cultural thinking
  • Evidence of God within Japan and 
  • Overcoming cultural barriers

Our next course begins Fall 2023. Exact dates yet to be determined.


-This is a second level course
- Prerequisite: Culture Specific Evangelism 101
-Independent learning format with reading, videos, interviews
-On-line written class interaction
-Video conferencing meetings
 
 Week 1 - Japanese Religion
 Week 2 - Understanding Japanese Thinking
 Week 3 - Cross-Cultural Thinking
 Week 4 - God's Fingerprints & From Buddha to Jesus
 Week 5 - Buddhism (1)
 Week 6 - Buddhism (2)
 Week 7 - From Buddha to Jesus 
Week 8 - Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Japan
Week 9 - Tools for Japan
Week 10 - Conclusion
 
 Three required textbooks:
  • From Buddha to Jesus: An insider's view of Buddhism and Christianity by Steve Cioccolanti
    • $10 (ebook), $15 (paperback) at Amazon
  • Operation Japan, A Prayer Guide for Japan, Fifth Edition
    • $5.00 PDF download through The Academy (provided when you register for the Class Community)
    • $5 greatly expanded and searchable digital web version  download from Don Wright
    • $7 (ebook), $9 (paperback) at Amazon

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This is a second level course. If you have completed CSE 101, please click below to request enrollment in the 201 class.

Instructor: Daniel Kikawa

Dr. Daniel Kikawa is our Culture Specific Evangelism (CSE) series instructor from Hawaii, USA. Daniel is President of Aloha Ke Akua Ministries to indigenous peoples,  Senior Pastor at Hilo Missionary Church in Hilo, Hawaii and the Kaimu Hale Pule (Hawaiian Church) in Kalapana, Hawaii. He is also a career cross-cultural researcher and presenter at conferences, seminaries and churches on every continent and author of numerous resources (many of which are utilized in our CSE courses).

Dr. Kikawa

Aloha Akua

“When teaching at missionary schools, I always ask non-Western students what their main objection was to accepting Christ. The main objection, and I am using a mild word because many times it was actually resentment and anger, was that the Christian God was a foreign God who did not love their people. I have found this objection in nearly all non-Western peoples I meet around the world, including most Japanese. Their thoughts are, ‘The Christian God is not our God and he doesn’t love us. If he did love us, we would see his hand of care and involvement in the long history of our people. Instead, he dwelt in the West, only cared for them, and only accepts their culture.”


People who have formerly resisted the Gospel are now responding when they are allowed to “be who they are” as a Christian. One Native American chief related why he did not attend church by saying, “I am an honest man, this (being Native American) is who I am.”  He refused to attend church because he could not be who he was there; he had to “act” like a Westerner. He was too honest to be a “fake” person before his Creator.  Even Westernized, urban youth have responded to a Gospel presented and practiced in cultural forms. It is very effective for Christ to be transmitted in the language and culture of a people because it is their “heart language.” It is then, no longer a foreign Christianity transplanted from the missionaries’ culture, but “Our” Christianity. Many missiologists who study Japan conclude that there is not yet a “Japanese form of Christianity.”