Bruchko, with possible spoilers

It is likely that most of you have never heard of this book, the true story of a 19 year old's efforts to bring the Gospel to the Motilones, a (at that time) little known and very much feared tribe of South American Indians/Natives.

This is one of the few autobiographical books that I actually enjoy--not only because it is 'exciting' in some instances, but because it shows what God can do and how He can use us to reach across cultural barriers to bring His Truth to others.

A few people, in posts on other websites, have made mention their discomfort of how Bruce Olson (Bruchko) told the Motilones of the Gospel, and how he made it relevant to their culture. That is the whole point, though. We cannot go to other countries and force upon them (if they accept Jesus into their lives) our Westernized standard of worship and building churches. They need to feel like they ARE the Church, instead of just being yet another group of converts. They should be able to worship God with their own style of music, bringing glory to Him. We will stand before God in the end when all nations are represented, AS different nations--not one Westernized world. All nations, with all of our cultural differences. We should not go to another country and expect those we lead to the Lord to sing worship songs from Hillsong and have standard sound equipment and wear western clothes and carry out their service in the manner that most Western churches do.


*end of random tangent*

Anyhow, Bruchko is an amazing book and you should check it out. Perhaps I will expand upon this later, seeing as I ended up on a tangent instead of actually describing what I liked about the book. :)