Reacting to a threat that no longer exists. 
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 9:43AM
Jim Robbins in Podcasts, assumptions that shape us, grace, graceroots podcast, guest podcast, new heart

My good friend,  Joel Brueseke of Graceroots Podcast, invited me to guest-podcast on his series.  [Thanks, Joel!]

What can we learn from the mistakes of a tribe in the Sudan of Africa about letting go of threats that no longer exist? 

Too many Christians believe that a threatening sickness lies in their heart and needs to be extracted - much like the Dinka tribe of the Sudan painfully extracts their children's adult teeth with a crude fishhook in order to remove a threat that no longer exists.

You can read an earlier post I've written on this curious practice of the Dinka tribe here.

 


LISTEN:  Here's my guest podcast on GraceRoots/  "Treating a threat that no longer exists."

 

 

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