This is a contextualised Chinese gospel tract taken from Create International. Can somebody please explain to me how in the world it tells the gospel? (large picture here)
As far as I'm concerned, it is a story of a poor country damsel who gets lured and taken dancing by a city man and is then unceremoniously dumped. The depressed girl then meets the man of her dreams, a man who smells of horses and fields. Maybe I'm reading it in the wrong direction.
Better insights, anyone?
Monday, August 14, 2006
Cryptic Chinese Gospel Tract
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I have no clue, but your telling of the Gospel makes me laugh. I didn't think there were suits and ties back then...what is the mobster doing in this story?
Mobster = Satan; Farm boy = Jesus?
Did you notice Farm boy waiting for the girl while she gallavanted with the mobster?
I'm hoping someone from Create International will come by and explain the mystery. :)
Hmm...let's start from 6 o'clock.
Farmer boy tells girl that he's her true lover, and takes her away on a wonderful journey. however, girl gets distracted by rich man and all other worldly pleasures (exemplified by modern buildings and suit and tie). Poor farmer boy is left spurned.
But what is worldly is a sham, and poor girl is left none the better after she realises that worldly artifacts are not really worth it. She runs off in desperation. She searches for meaning in her life.
To her surprise, her farmer boy lover has not given up loving her in spite of all that she's done(parable of the lost son?) and he welcomes her back, and they get married. Happily ever after.
They get married?? Happily ever after??? :)
I think you may as close to the gospel as it gets actually. :) Though I don't know about the appropriateness of refering to Jesus as "farm boy lover". Heeheehee.
Read Song of Songs. Soloman is a type of Christ in that he was the king who became a country man in order to court a country girl. He courted her, wooed her and when she matched him, married her. At the end of SofS she is called the Shulamite, the fem of Soloman. God became a man, now He is courting man, and when His bride is prepared He will return for her. By dispensing His life and nature into His redeemed He is making man the same as He is in life and nature, but not in His God-head, because just as a man can not marry a dog, God can not marry one who does not match Him.
But I really do not see how that picture preaches the gospel. Not with out a LOT of help at least.
But you can use ALMOST anything to preach the gospel.
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