Before Western missionaries arrived in Fiji natives:
- Were cannibals
- Strangled widows
- Performed child sacrifice
Then Western missionaries arrived and began preaching the Gospel
Slowly villages would convert and become a safe haven
But then the natives killed and ate one of the missionaries for “offending them”
All that was left were his leather sandals which are on display in a Fiji museum today
The missionaries begged the British to take over and put a stop to all the savagery
Britain took Fiji as a colony and banned such horrors under colonial rule 1/3
- Were cannibals
- Strangled widows
- Performed child sacrifice
Then Western missionaries arrived and began preaching the Gospel
Slowly villages would convert and become a safe haven
But then the natives killed and ate one of the missionaries for “offending them”
All that was left were his leather sandals which are on display in a Fiji museum today
The missionaries begged the British to take over and put a stop to all the savagery
Britain took Fiji as a colony and banned such horrors under colonial rule 1/3
The cannibal island continued to be evangelized and in 1997 adopted the below Preamble to their Constitution
They recognized the horrors of their hedonism and how it was through the power of Jesus Christ they as a people turned from their ways
The irony: When Rome discovered Britons they were painting their faces blue and eating people too
Then they too converted to Christianity and God used a tiny island of former cannibal island to evangelize nearly the whole world as their empire spread 2/3
They recognized the horrors of their hedonism and how it was through the power of Jesus Christ they as a people turned from their ways
The irony: When Rome discovered Britons they were painting their faces blue and eating people too
Then they too converted to Christianity and God used a tiny island of former cannibal island to evangelize nearly the whole world as their empire spread 2/3
Today you can see the impact of the Gospel in Fiji as rugby players begin their match singing hymns
How incredible to think that a few generations ago their ancestors were literally eating each other
That, is the power of the Gospel
How incredible to think that a few generations ago their ancestors were literally eating each other
That, is the power of the Gospel
Part of the reason the West was so successful in the 19th century was because everywhere it went the Gospel was proclaimed
Should the West return to its former glory it must remember what made it great first
Christianity
Should the West return to its former glory it must remember what made it great first
Christianity
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