One Church, Many Tribes

Richard Twiss

Description

A New Uprising for God's GloryIn 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.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• History of religions
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 25 août 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781441268822
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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ONE CHURCH, MANY TRIBES
God has never been as limited as His people in lovingly disseminating and embracing the gospel through diverse native cultures and paradigms. Richard Twiss opens our eyes to the heritage and wonders of our First Nation brothers and sisters and their unique expression of true Christianity.
Ché Ahn
Author of Into the Fire Senior Pastor, Harvest Rock Church Pasadena, California
Richard Twiss has given us an outstanding, long-needed book that will help bring compassion and reconciliation between diverse peoples created in the image of God and for whom Christ died. Highly recommended.
Bill Bright
Author of Red Sky in the Morning Cofounder, Campus Crusade for Christ Orlando, Florida
I have often been blessed by the host people of our land, but this book brought a depth of understanding I never possessed. Richard Twiss, whom I have known and admired for years, shows us how Native American culture can reveal new dimensions of the greatness of our Creator. This revolutionary book has the power to change our nation!
Bobbye Byerly
Director of Prayer and Intercession, World Prayer Center Colorado Springs, Colorado
Richard Twiss has a great heart for reconciliation and for reaching the world with the gospel of Christ. Earnest readers will be enriched and challenged with the profound insights he shares. I pray that God will use this thoughtful book to move many of us to reach out to Native Americans with the compassion and understanding of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
Paul A. Cedar
Chairman, Mission America, Palm Desert, California
The Creator has raised up His servant Richard Twiss for such a time as this. In One Church, Many Tribes , Richard captures the problem we face today in ministering to the host people of this land and presents a powerful, well-balanced, culturally relevant means to successfully reach the First Nations people.
Raymond M. Dunton
Hopi/Diné (Navajo) Founder and Director of WINGS of Freedom, a ministry of Freedom in Christ La Habra, California
Richard Twiss carries in his soul God’s heart for North America’s Native peoples. He is one of those gifted individuals who sees past the illusion of traditions, past deceptions that have kept Christians divided. I pray that God will raise up thousands of disciples who, like Richard, will follow Jesus into the healing of the nations.
Francis Frangipane
Pastor, River of Life Ministries Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Richard Twiss is a modern-day apostle for the new millennium. The Native American voice is critically needed for the successful completion of the mission work of the Church. As a new generation of believers leaves behind old stereotypes, One Church, Many Tribes will be a valuable resource, directly confronting an old worldview that must yield to the overwhelming power of truth.
Rev. Mary A. Glazier
Founder and President, Windwalkers International Anchorage, Alaska
Jesus is calling every tribe and nation to come together to worship Him in the diversity and beauty of who He made each of us to be.
Melody Green
CEO, Last Days Ministries
I heartily endorse the message of One Church, Many Tribes , because I share it fully. Wampum is a beaded belt containing symbols representing an agreement reached between two covenant partners. My wampum belt with Richard Twiss would picture two men joining hands and holding up the cross of Christ.
Rev. Adrian Jacobs
Cayuga from the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Director, Wesleyan Native American Ministries Rapid City, South Dakota
Richard Twiss has a message that needs to be heard by the Church, Native Americans and the world. It’s a message of inclusion and cooperation in which the Church recognizes the contributions of Native American Christians. It’s a message of affirmation of Native American culture and compassion for First Nations people. It’s a message of the gospel of Jesus Christ preached without compromise to all people.
Stephen B. Kellough
Chaplain of the College, Wheaton College Wheaton, Illinois
Following the examples of Jesus and the apostle Paul, Richard Twiss seeks to present the gospel relevantly to Native Americans, a neglected people who for too long have been required to abandon their own way of life to become Christians.
Dr. Charles H. Kraft
Professor of Anthropology, School of World Mission Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, California
After reading One Church, Many Tribes , I am convinced of the rightness of the direction of Richard Twiss and his ministry, Wiconi International. In fact, I believe his approach will be absolutely essential if we are to successfully minister to the First Nations of North America. He has my heartfelt and full support.
Rev. Terry LeBlanc
Mi’kmaq Nation, Acadian Manager, Aboriginal Programs, World Vision Canada
Wesleyan Native American Ministries has seen lives transfomed as a result of these biblical principles. During a seminar where Richard Twiss taught from One Church, Many Tribes , the lives of many Native American people were changed forever. We believe the biggest downfall of Christian outreach to Native people is that of condemning the Native culture. Richard’s teaching from Scripture that we can be Christians and Native Americans at the same time opened our eyes to lost opportunities and future options for Christ’s work.
Larry Marshall
General Director, Wesleyan Native American Ministries Rapid City, South Dakota
With a perfect blend of intriguing personal stories, vignettes from history, biblical principles and cross-cultural applications, One Church, Many Tribes cries out to the Church, inviting Christians everywhere to understand and stand together with First Nations people. One cannot read this book without feeling a profound call to repentance and reconciliation. Richard Twiss pulls at your spiritual heart-strings in a way that doesn’t leave you buried in guilt—he motivates you to action!
F. Douglas Pennoyer
Dean of the School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University La Mirada, California
Richard Twiss presents a much needed and creative approach to ministry in and through the Native American community. What a heart he has for the gospel, for Native Americans and for a biblical approach to accomplishing the work of the Lord!
Tom Phillips
President and CEO, International Students, Inc.
You need to read this book. I first heard of Richard Twiss many years ago, that this Sioux pastor had a heart to reach his First Nations people. Now that I have come to know Richard, I see that this is true; but I also see that he has a heart to bring reconciliation to all people groups within the Body of Christ. Look out world! This warrior is armed with knowledge and is dangerous with the love of Christ!
Grand Chief Lynda Prince
Founder and President, First Nations of North America Richmond, British Columbia
Richard Twiss, a Lakota/Sioux living in predominantly Anglo America, reminds me of Joseph, long-ago leader of a Hebrew minority in ancient Egypt. To be sure, the Egyptians gave Joseph good cause to feel cynical about Egyptian people. But Joseph, rising above cynicism, blessed an undeserving nation—a nation that had enslaved him and put him in chains without cause. Native Americans have at least as much cause for cynicism about the Anglo population today. Richard Twiss, like a modern Joseph, is calling Christian Native people to rise above cynicism and fulfill a Joseph-like destiny in this strife-ridden world. The message in this marvelous book is like a healing balm for many racial wounds inflicted over time.
Don Richardson
Author of Peace Child and Eternity in Their Hearts Woodland Hills, California
Richard Twiss is beating the drum for Native evangelism to be accepted and supported throughout the Church and beyond. He fervently desires that Native Americans be allowed to make their God-given contribution to the world, that Native dancers and singers be invited into our services as full and equal partners in the gospel of Christ. This book is a must for all who would enlist to make war for the kingdom of God in the end times. Until and unless we examine the logs in our own eyes, we will not be able to heal our broken and tattered world. One Church, Many Tribes is a major lamp of revelation for the cleansing and healing of America and the world.
John Loren Sanford
Osage Indian Cofounder, Elijah House, Inc. Board Member, Native American Resource Network Hayden, Idaho
Don’t read this book unless you are willing to face your own fears, prejudices and possible misperceptions. Richard Twiss has lovingly uncovered my stereotypical thinking and challenged me to a new paradigm concerning his First Nations people. I’ve long cherished his friendship and now commend him for writing this most important book!
Eddie Smith
President, U.S. Prayer Track Houston, Texas
Richard Twiss challenges us on some difficult and sensitive issues—issues that have deep roots in this nation and must be addressed. History belongs to the Lord, and this book will give you the desire to seek God’s heart in these difficult matters. From God’s perspective we will find grace and more understanding that will enable us to love one another in our differences and be participants with Him in fulfilling His desired destiny for the First Nations and for all of America.
Jean Steffenson
President, Native American Resource Network Castle Rock, Colorado
The folly of attempting to do God’s work with man’s agenda is never so glaring as in the realm of evangelism. Religious ignorance has wreaked untold damage and misery among indigenous peoples, tribes and races during the last 2,000 years—epecially among the indigenous Native American people.
There are “indigenous” eccentricities among us, whether we live in Detroit or at Wounded Knee, whether we call ourselves Lakota or Latino. The same precious blood was shed on the Cross for us all, and we need every precious drop. Richard Twiss is determined with this boo