![]() Then, after many months of friendship, the "friend" would be dramatically murdered, cooked, and eaten. The best and most highly-regarded way to murder was to first befriend a person (from another tribe or village) and get him to trust you fully. One highly-prized ideal was the "fattening a friend for slaughter." It wasn't just enough to kill someone. ![]() Richardson labored to show the Sawi a way that they could comprehend the Gospel, but the cultural barriers to understanding and accepting this teaching seemed impossible until an unlikely event brought the concept of the substitutionary atonement of Christ into immediate relevance for the Sawi.The book goes into detail about many of the concepts and customs of the people. The Sawi were an isolated tribe who were known to be cannibalistic headhunters. He demonstrates in his writings how, hidden among tribal cultures, there are usually some practices or understandings, that he calls "redemptive analogies", which can be used to illustrate the meaning of the Christian Gospel, contextualizing the Biblical representation of the incarnation of Jesus.The book tells the story how in 1962 Don and his wife Carol with their 7 month old baby went to work among the Sawi tribe in New Guinea. ![]() Don Richardson who is a Canadian Christian missionary, who worked among the tribal people of Western New Guinea, Indonesia. ![]()
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