Teaching makes sense to Akolets
Malaka sat next to missionary Julie Martin, grunting throughout the second day’s Bible lesson.
The grunts were the elderly woman’s way of saying she understood and agreed. "It was really neat to see her tracking," Julie wrote.
Tuesday through Saturday last week, Adam Martin began evangelistic Bible lessons for the Akolet people of Papua New Guinea.
"This is so good!" said Saik, the village chief’s wife, after hearing the fourth day’s lesson. "We’ve never heard anything like this before. We all need to come to this every day."
The evangelistic lessons begin in Creation and move chronologically through the death and resurrection of Christ. They are not simply a recitation of stories in the order they took place; the lessons focus on what each event teaches us about God, man and man’s relationship with God. These themes run throughout Scripture, and many of them are introduced in Creation.
"Having established … that God is all powerful and needs nothing," Julie wrote, "Adam asked them, ’Why did God create the light? Did He need it to help Him see in the dark? Why did God create water? Did He get thirsty from the hard work of creating?’
"Everyone said no, laughing at how preposterous [it is] to think that God would need anything. Then Adam went on to explain that because God is good, He planned ahead for when He would create humans, and what all we would need for our existence.
"Afterwards, several of the ladies talked about this point with me, saying how that really made sense."
Liklikme also told Julie -- "with a passion I don’t often see in her" -- that her old ways need to be thrown out and she wants to hear God’s teaching each day.
Her husband, Sapu, told Ryan Warner he enjoyed the first lesson. Ryan and his wife Sarah are the Martins’ co-workers in the Akolet tribe.
Tuesday the teaching is to resume. There are 64 evangelistic lessons yet to teach.
The grunts were the elderly woman’s way of saying she understood and agreed. "It was really neat to see her tracking," Julie wrote.
Tuesday through Saturday last week, Adam Martin began evangelistic Bible lessons for the Akolet people of Papua New Guinea.
"This is so good!" said Saik, the village chief’s wife, after hearing the fourth day’s lesson. "We’ve never heard anything like this before. We all need to come to this every day."
The evangelistic lessons begin in Creation and move chronologically through the death and resurrection of Christ. They are not simply a recitation of stories in the order they took place; the lessons focus on what each event teaches us about God, man and man’s relationship with God. These themes run throughout Scripture, and many of them are introduced in Creation.
"Having established … that God is all powerful and needs nothing," Julie wrote, "Adam asked them, ’Why did God create the light? Did He need it to help Him see in the dark? Why did God create water? Did He get thirsty from the hard work of creating?’
"Everyone said no, laughing at how preposterous [it is] to think that God would need anything. Then Adam went on to explain that because God is good, He planned ahead for when He would create humans, and what all we would need for our existence.
"Afterwards, several of the ladies talked about this point with me, saying how that really made sense."
Liklikme also told Julie -- "with a passion I don’t often see in her" -- that her old ways need to be thrown out and she wants to hear God’s teaching each day.
Her husband, Sapu, told Ryan Warner he enjoyed the first lesson. Ryan and his wife Sarah are the Martins’ co-workers in the Akolet tribe.
Tuesday the teaching is to resume. There are 64 evangelistic lessons yet to teach.