- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Regal; Revised edition edition (Aug 8 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0830725458
- ISBN-13: 978-0830725458
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 263 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #49 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Other Practices > Tribal & Ethnic
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A full-blooded Lakota/Sioux whose bitterness towards the white man was washed away by the blood of Christ, Richard Twiss shows that Native American Christians have much to offer the Church and can become a major force for reaching the lost. Full of wisdom, humor and passion, this book explains how the Church can begin to break down the walls of anger, distrust and bitterness and move toward revival in our land.
From the Back Cover
In this captivating chronicle of the Native American story, Richard Twiss of the Rosebud Lakota/Sioux sifts through myth and legend to reveal God's strategy for the nation's host people. With wit, wisdom, and passion, Twiss shows God's desire to use the cultures of First Nations peoples--in all their mystery, color and beauty--to break through to those involved in New Age mysticism, Eastern religions, even Islam. One Church, Many Tribes is a rallying cry for the Church to work as one so that the lost may learn to walk in life with beauty, along the path of the Waymaker.
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I wouldn't change much...,
By jeff kennedy (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Church Many Tribes: Following Jesus the Way God Made You (Paperback)
I heard this man speak first, which was what convinced me to get the book. Incredibly relevant content for today, and even more relevant when you start extrapolating into the Mexican and South American native history. I must admit though that there are a few pages in there where I raised my eyebrows at some of his "optimism", but then again I can learn from that as well. "Never stop dreaming until you're ready to wake up and do it".
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Wonderful thought-provoker...,
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This review is from: One Church Many Tribes: Following Jesus the Way God Made You (Paperback)
One Church Many Tribes is a deeply spiritual book that helps "white bread" readers like me to understand some of the greater universalities of our Christian faith. I strongly recommend this book for readers everywhere, and especially for those who live in areas with a Native American population.
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For More Than Just First Nations Believers,
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This review is from: One Church Many Tribes: Following Jesus the Way God Made You (Paperback)
This book is half exploration of the Native experience with the Church, and half examination of how a Christian life should manifest itself in particular cultures. Twiss gives a good general introduction to the spectacularly poor manner in which First Nations peoples have been treated as not merely targets of evangelization, but as believers who did not find the alleged brotherhood of the faith either very brotherly or faithful. It is a sad, disgusting tale, made personal by the account of Chief Spokane Garry.It is the rest of the book, however, where the hope shines through. Here, Twiss asks the darn good question: Why shouldn't First Nations persons use their own instruments, music, dress, and dance to honor God? Yes, why not? He expands the argument to include aboriginal peoples all around the world, and it is actually applicable to any culture that wonders why it's being fed the Western way as the alleged way things are to be done. He developes a careful, Biblically sensitive mindset on how to think through these issues, such that one can disassociate cultural items from an original context that may not have been consonant with Biblical values, and give them new life in the Christian worldview. It is a great vision of Christ transforming culture. When this type of thinking catches on around the world, the kingdom will grow in leaps and bounds. For anyone who feels their culture, or subculture, has been stepped on by middle-class Western values that someone has tried to hide in God's mouth, this book will help set you free to drum, create, dance, and dress in ways that both make sense to your people and honor your God.
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