Abstract
The point has repeatedly been made that the hearing of the gospel is filtered through presuppositions created by cultural ideas, experience, and world view. Sometimes this distortion in the reception of the message can result in complete misunderstanding. Occasionally the missionary has no idea of the interference involved. The following account is the story of a slowly awakening consciousness which came to Miss Pike in her work among the Mazatecs, an awareness of the set of assumptions which governed people's ideas about the Bible. It also discusses efforts to teach in such a way that the communication difficulty is overcome.
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