I do believe that John of Japan's very first post to you was an excellent answer to your initial question. In short, yes, sometimes a missionary will become tempted and fall due to the heathen culture around him.....is this not the same thing that happens in America far too often? However, the same steps that we take here in the States to keep ourselves from temptation are the same ones we will use on the mission field.Originally posted by Frenchy:
OK back to the topic at hand, still not getting any solid answers to how a missionary family deals with such nudity of the natives. i know the natives are not saved and don't know any better. my question is how are "godly" people and their families (children) effected by this? we are told by some, if we watch too much TV or movies we are exposed to sin and that it is wrong. now how is that different than being exposed to naked people if we lived around them all the time. And see them having you know what in the open or where ever these missionaries saw them. (remember my example of missionaries teaching another way, ie missionary stye)?
You might say, "Well, the women here in America don't have a culture of walking around nekkid". Have you been to the mall lately? Or any beach in any of the coastal states? Much of the time the attire in America may as well be gone altogether for all it hides.....and preachers here have to deal with seeing it walk into their services all the time. What do they do? How do we here keep our families safe? We try to minimize the impact, give them instruction and training, and yes, AVOID the places where we KNOW these sorts of things will be more prevalent.