The Bible and evolution are no longer found contradictory but complementing each other. Just read and see this truth and bridge the gap between science and faith.
Religious pluralism, the bouquet that is to unite different religions for peaceful coexistence has now become the flowers of Hemlock that killed Socrates, and is killing Christianity by taking away the sole authority of Christ, the authority which has been proved empirically in the whole span of world history.
There are many books on missiology and missions written by missiologists, missionaries and mission senders, but one can hardly find a book written from the perspectives of mission receivers. Whether joy or sorrow, and advantageous or disadvantageous, no one can understand more than the person who personally have undergone through it. This book will give a rare ray from a hidden race and a hidden society under persecution.
1. The emergence of Darwin's empirical "Evolution Theory" which appeared to be contradictory to the biblical account of creation, forked Christianity and science into two different directions ever widening the gap, and many in highly educated circles tended toward despising the authority of the Bible, and many pious Christians became fanatics by rejecting scientific advancements. For some good Christians and scientists the two disciplines seem to run as parallel rails. They are faithful to science at work and loyal to religion in the church, even though the two realms for them are different entities. Many became atheists, neglecting the authority of Christ. Today it is amazing to see that people of no religious group constitute up to 16 percent of the world population. Indeed, science is the study about nature and the components of it, all of which are created by God. It should not be contradictory but complementary to the biblical truth. This book bridges the gap between science and biblical faiith and gives scientific and empirical proofs of Jesus Christ's authority from a historical perspective.
2. Since religious pluralism is mellifluous and attractive, it is gaining more and more favor in today's world of globalization, where the whole wide world has become just a small village. This globalization of modernity changes the mindset of the people with relation to both physical and metaphysical issues, and cooperation, correlation, coexistence, co-ownership, and inter-dependence have become prime necessitated phenomena. On the other hand, the world has been afflicted by a series of world-wide wars, and many internal or civil clashes everywhere here and there. People facing the heat of battle as well as those facing distant repercussions, are tired of seeing the horrible results of war. This has accelerated movements leading to love and peace, rather than hatred and vengeance. As the world recuperates from hatred and war and seeks to move toward peace and reconciliation, religions, once attacking one another in deadly crusades or at least for once staying aloft from each other, are now concurring together seeking ways for coexistence – or at least finding enough unity to make the world a blissful globe. It is appropriate to apply religious pluralism in such a context, and if it succeeds it will become an attractive bouquet - like the beauty and the beast, or it may be likened even to a cup of cold water for a thirsty traveler under the scorching desert sun. Regretfully we find that with some people, the quest for religious pluralism results in a total misuse of the bouquet – it becomes flowers for a funeral. This happens when the uniqueness of all religions are taken away for the sake of unity. To some extent, this misuse of pluralism turns the bouquet into flowers of hemlock that affects the nervous system and induces trembling, the loss of coordination, and paralysis of respiration. The effect it gives profanes the sacredness of a religion and becomes apostasy. As hemlock was used in killing Socrates, this apostasy of religious pluralism is used in contaminating and deteriorating the profoundness of religions and finally causing people to become Atheists.
3. Trends of theology explored so far, whether conservative or liberal, if they are based on the word of God, have certain truths and effects to be applied to a certain respective context. Indeed, neither one ethos nor one thread of thought can cover the whole truth about God the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and so it is with the will of God; we cannot understand it fully from one perspective only. It has no use, therefore, for one trend to stand against the other (theology of confrontation) or to compromise one another, but it should be complementary to each other. The lovely part of having different trends is that the application of each has specific effect depending upon the context, but application to the wrong context gives an abortive end or a tragic result. Today, as divine revelation has progressed, slavery is seen as an evil structure of oppression - both theologically and ethically it is evil. For all human beings, regardless of color and culture, are the children of God, created in his own image. So enslaving one another is one of the worst dreadful sins. But Paul did not try to abolish it. Instead he encouraged slaves to be loyal to their masters and provide the best service, as if they were serving the Lord. The book of Philemon, in which Paul writes Philemon to accept back Onesimus the slave, who fled away from his master, mentioning that he has persuaded Onesimus to be a good Christian slave. Therefore, if we apply this message to the slaves it will not lead to liberation from slavery but foster enslavement by christianizing its structure. Indeed, "Philemon" can be regarded as the source of 'Theology for Slavery' and was a good text that prolonged ugly slavery among Christians in America, which took a century to change. Missiological evaluation must be made from all perspectives: not only from the sentiment of missionaries themselves or mission sending churches, but from the mindset of mission receivers as well, for they can reveal the true impact. There are many books written by missionaries or mission sending churches on the mission work they have conducted, but one scarcely finds books written by mission receivers. The view of missionaries might be sometimes different from the angle of mission receivers. Whether there is joy or sorrow, no one can understand the depth of a person's feelings better than the person himself. This book gives such a rare ray from a mission receiver.
About Rev. Dr. La Wu
Rev. Dr. La Wu is a retired minister from Burma who took Doctoral study at Eden Theological Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri. In his 35 years of service in Burma, he served as the president: seventeen years at Lisu Bible School, Shwezet, Myitkyin; and twelve years at Lisu Theological Seminary of Myanmar, Pyin Oo Lwin, Burma.
This book was written at Fuller Theological Seminary as he was chosen by Global Research Instititute to conduct one-year research with full scholarship.
Being the son of Rev. Mark La Le, a native Lisu evangelist who worked 27 years with China-Inland Missionaries in China, and being brought up and educated among the Kachins under American Baptist Missions in Burma, he has some first-hand knowledge and a strong heart for his own hidden people Lisu and the whole people of God in Burma to write this book to uncover some hidden truths and expose them to western theologians, missionaries, minssion senders, and all Christians who were bought and saved by the blood of Christ to heed to the cries of the leasts among the brethrens.
The Bible and evolution are no longer found contradictory but complementing each other. Just read and see this truth and bridge the gap between science and faith. 
Rev. Dr. La Wu is a retired minister from Burma who took Doctoral study at Eden Theological Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri. In his 35 years of service in Burma, he served as the president: seventeen years at Lisu Bible School, Shwezet, Myitkyin; and twelve years at Lisu Theological Seminary of Myanmar, Pyin Oo Lwin, Burma.