I once got into an argument with some missionaries on furlough from Japan. They refused to address suicide as sinful. I heard of other missionaries in India that the wives tattooed their forehead and covered themselves in Indian tradition. They goal is to reach the people by respecting their culture and adopting it to form a better rapport. To me this is assimilating the world instead.

"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." - Jonathan Edwards