03. MelVee Talks || Joshua Maponga on Decolonizing Christianity

[Music] talk about European Western Christianity and against Christianity has gone to many cultures including African cultures but there's this new team that has come up in in South Africa let me say in South Africa I don't know about other countries be colonizing Christianity what does that mean to you the difference is an assumption that the Christianity we have is the colonial west area like I mentioned here but what does it mean to be an applicant Christian you tell you say 7 the dad with this which I am also here how do you become a seventh-day adventists who's an African in authentic Africa that's a very powerful powerful concept on its own because the the packaging of the gospel and even some of the issues that were I like highlighting right now in terms of the the gospel the dr. Dennis Center in Cana some cases they are totally naive in some cases totally ignorant about the audience in which they are going to Christianity comes it does not respect local food does not affect local music in doesn't research local clothing does not affect local family structures and cultural family structures of respect his no regard of the land does not respect such of shrines that are their places of worship is no idea of proof of the environment and where the patents and it just comes and says you are not become Christian we live everything that you are doing depositions take off your clothes take off your DS jumped into this top like this thing like this almost an extent that the African must first of all be Deepak yes because virtualization as you have to be poked the obligate test for himself a he must come 1/2 euro air for God can begin to addressing if we read a drum right now boom yeah God jumps to the window in the ether here pour le bouton organ nothing becomes big England and I think if God is foreign to the applicant Tunisian either know you created even the Africans awesome yeah so the dis colonization of Christianity basically is to look at the whole terms of Christianity we are not going to be tolerating white pictures of Jesus as emblems of Christianity okay if you say it does not matter what color Jesus is it even does not matter if he's black or white okay so remove within the web yeah but you can Jose does not matter but only because nobody else here let's avoid so the whole issue of how does Jesus leave Africa not Amrita it goes to Europe then becomes better blue eyes blonde hair and Electra it's a problem the fact that we do defensive zorbing toward know okay no more choruses okay now we were in the divine perfect now listen let's do the him you know the communal garden web engage here in listen and slowly almost a what is local cannot approach good what we can only begin to address god yeah when he is singing like this so the decolonizing is route Africa yeah maybe maybe 60% of what with the whole Christianity are practices that have made to be acceptable to ammonia master sewing on talents yeah religion was actually an evangelist for colonialism yeah but let's go back to the Bible always refer to use the Bible as a reference point this topic of decolonization of a of the Christian faith was the first controversy but got all the Apostles to come together and discuss how do we teach this gospel to the Gentiles ever even talk to us because you're a theologian and maybe let's put it from the inside how does that first discussion by this pest we call it the first General Conference applied to us today because they had to decolonize by the news that word their Hebraic faith yes to some custom make it to the Gentile nation your use very beautiful language custom make without even dividing even getting the discussion itself yeah does our modern Christianity mmm the European customize the religion or the Christianity when they came to offer it hmm no they did not customer they actually broke it as it yeah and then we were just told of hitting the butt again Paul says the best statement which you can find anyway here is I handed you the juice the juice and the marami the Roman government here was it come to Africa you say I'm an African to the other African and all the pictures have left I hope you know interview can cut that picture yes with the General Conference president came to Nigeria here they actually dressed him up yeah like an agenda for me that statement on its own says had we started off here that's when we are approaching people don't yet corn don't don't don't don't do down very they're called you up hold in junket in the tie polish shoes when you having like a certain vitamins and no God will accept you in the yeah yeah having with a form of awareness yeah but we're dealing the power of the gospel okay what will have nothing to do yeah good good yeah allow me to take the license I have as a host been talking to the people out there I have had this very night in question of saying most African countries this is on the political space they went to liberation Wars to fight against the colonial system of rulership but when we got the independence we retained most of the systems of governance of those colonialists how does that change for the African religious or even political leaders were out there who may be leading our countries because we changed the leadership but the systems remain for it can you believe that we are still being run by the Roman Dutch law do I look like a Roman do I look like a detriment because yeah when the for sure don't look like what I wish I'd look like one but for the purposes of but you look at the arrogance of colonialism the arrogance of Christianity that you totally disregard yeah the indigenous knowledge base that you find in a place Africa did not have prison in Africa did not have hospitals Africa did not have this and that and don't tell me that when colonialists came here the founder died yeah under teeth you know so they came to resuscitate they found vibrant urban areas yes that hint that includes yeah that we're dancing and celebrating bag life there's a time when our bushes were formatted mostly eco companies yeah I'm when when when our River spoke to us there's a time when our mountains were places of come on in God to fill their water owners and raining and you walk into a space and you ignore all of that now with a bunch of African Christians who call themselves Christians call them those political leaders hmm we never have access to God more access to the money of the colonialist they are talking about the illiterate custodian of a program of oppression that isn't given to them it has that in mind you tend to find that we are all absolutely frustrated non-vegan government but until again again we come back and isness knowledge yeah and in corporate indigenous knowledge I was hanging a profit on Canyon the other day that we needed to take democracy and second sided with a local knife all right we needed a baptize this monastic order and they include a little bit of cultural include a little special for what is a Christian who can no longer recognize his father mmm it's usually a demon if you find faux fur there is a demon then what are you it's part of the deal all of a sudden all of a sudden focusing on why and vessels then access to God with all respect of course God of Abraham God of Jacob God of what yeah in fact why not call God of my father because for me to be here yeah and if God was ending with him in the past you did giggling so God has a purpose for me yeah so if we can call on God of David who butcher is afraid pregnant I mean general his wife and then Mary Jane what and I say via Jesus is born out of everyone on the genealogy of Jesus and I'm told there are more to the positive cheapest to delete but I said by its beauty our DVDs click here and all these people and people look at back at the African processes I cannot mention my father the father was an ancestor worship a birthday what we preserve the knowledge of your past yeah when you pray to good as a the God with blip the Columbus the god of it when the nation whatever happened where gaudiya we've done here to be absolute with them in the triune God who said she does not seem only now it is where you're coming up salute is wearable and I think for African services and politicians we know knowledge in pursuit of materialistic capitalistic ideologies that we are using our own people yeah so you're talking about an indigenous Christian faith which is authentically African and does not negate some of the good African practices that we've always had which online with the biblical principles which are put for me if you look at a bunt oh yeah aah I'm a producer would Yama and tank off you know the critical fibers opening of African being yeah they are purely Christian hmm if you are walking through a field and you're hungry yeah you don't need to come to my house ask for food yeah go in the field break a watermelon as long as John Kerry somehow I don't know but walk away if ye king of Obama even if I know it's not enough food here please come there you draw the refused giving someone water yeah I know I know cutting trees for example the Greg displaces it as much as people might be scared too much of making these things or to get a satanic India they know that demons in etc but these with the same principles of conservation now into conservation what is now being written by a blue thread while the white man is talking let's convert Africa he has not put a little water into the sea and African knew that you don't contaminate you don't pee in a pool where you're drinking you don't walk at night you don't clean things like this bottom element in themselves in as Majid unfortunately they were interpreted by people who did not understand them but I think in my old age now when I go back into my African archives to look at these norms and cultures might as well find that out rather bonus or rather deal with an African fairy bread in African human being alright understand himself in the environment mmm that didn't get accretion yeah who knows Jesus hmm and does not know anything else yeah yeah what other know Jesus crucified I don't care about anything else yeah look if they don't care what it is and why you would work yeah which Jesus would take you so far away from everybody else and then doesn't make you look of their own drugs here [Music]

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Length: 11min 27sec (687 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 28 2017