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    The Bible Teaching On The Attitude Towards One's Enemies And The Pokot Culture
    (Tangaza University College, 2002-02) Resende, Filipe
    This study aims at highlighting possible ways to make a reality among the Pokot Jesus' call to love one's enemies. Many have discouraged me by saying that such a thing would be impossible for the pastoralist Mot. (I wonder if it is easy for any of us!) I was told that their history and life is inbred with such activities. I think that if God is at work in all peoples of the world through the Spirit (cf. Acts 10:44-45)) then Jesus also wills his message to reach the Pokot. Since then, 1 have visited Ptikot land many times, both East and West Mot, especially the pastoralist area, which remains an area of first evangelisation. In my several visits, I tried to do some research into the ways the Spirit has been at work with the Mot. I conducted several interviews between June and August 2001, both in East and