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Author: William A. Dyrness
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780310535812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing narratives of experiences with God as source material, Dyrness sets out to discover the framework, both explicit as well as implicit, that guides the lives of five different lay communities around the world.
Author: Andrew F. Walls
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1608331822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of
Author: Linfu Dong
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0802038697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Cross Culture and Faith, Linfu Dong sheds new light on the modern encounter between China and the West through Menzies's life, work, and thought.
Author: Kenneth Nehrbass
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1498239099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization has raised numerous questions about theology and culture for Christians. How should we respond to outsourcing and immigration? How does anti-Western sentiment affect the proclamation of the gospel? What is the role of the church in society? This book argues that Christians will be most fulfilled and most effective if they embrace their cultural activity rather than feel ambivalent about it. The central question of this book is, how does bearing God's image relate to cultural activity? Nehrbass explains that "spheres of culture," such as political, technological, and social structures, are systems that God has instilled in humans as his image bearers, so that they can glorify and enjoy him forever. Therefore, a theology of culture involves recognizing that the kingdom of God encompasses heaven and Earth, rather than pitting heaven against Earth. The text surveys anthropological explanations for humanity's dependence on culture, and shows that each explanation provides only partial explanatory scope. The most satisfying explanation is that a major functional aspect of bearing God's image is engaging in culture, since the Trinity has been eternally engaged in cultural functions like ruling, communicating, and creating. Each chapter contains a summary and questions about what it means to be a world-changer in the twenty-first century.
Author: Caleb Crider
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-14
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780996184755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Western Church world is abuzz with talk of being missional. Church leaders, conference speakers, and authors are weighing the merits of the attractional church movement of the past few decades, and where they find it lacking, prescribing changes in the way we need to approach our cultures with the Gospel. There has been a consensus shift among many churches, networks, and denominations to become more focused on mission. The result is a renewed interest in reaching the lost in our cities and around the world. The Church, in many places in the Western world, is in fact returning to a biblical missional focus. Yet there is something still to be addressed in the process: the how. For centuries, God has called missionaries to cross cultures with the Gospel, and along the way, they have developed the necessary skill-sets for a cultural translation of the Good News. These skills need to be shared with the rest of the Church in order to help them as well be effective missionaries. Tradecraft for the Church on Mission does exactly that. This book, in essence, pulls back the curtain on tools once accessible only to full-time Christian workers moving overseas, and offers them to anyone anywhere who desires to live missionally.
Author: Duane Elmer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-08-20
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0830874828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuane Elmer offers the tools needed to reduce apprehension, communicate effectively and establish genuine trust and acceptance between cultures while demonstrating how we can avoid being cultural imperialists and instead become authentic ambassadors for Christ.
Author: Judith E. Lingenfelter
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2003-06-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1585583081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeaching Cross-Culturally is a challenging consideration of what it means to be a Christian educator in a culture other than your own. Chapters include discussions about how to uncover cultural biases, how to address intelligence and learning styles, and teaching for biblical transformation. Teaching Cross-Culturally is ideal for the western-trained educator or missionary who plans to work in a non-western setting, as well as for those who teach in an increasingly multicultural North America.
Author: Alfonso Espinosa
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780758667182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith Bartel de Graner
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781603821162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCourse Description (MIN3033): Welcome to an adventure in culture. We have filled this course with graphics,life stories, and practical exercises to make it as real and helpful as possible. It explores the missionary's purpose,character, and challenges of understanding layers of culture and worldviews of various people groups. From theinside out we will practice thinking from the positions of those who are mostly relational, or intellectual, or spiritual.We will examine the cycle of communication, and the barriers to overcome in each of its steps. We will take timeto consider 12 ways that we communicate without talking. There will be an invitation to climb the five steps oflearning new values. We will encourage and even stretch you to practice seeing nine values through the eyes ofthose who view life from an opposite perspective than yours. And because the rise and fall of our message dependson relationships, we will devote several lessons to emphasizing and practicing 12 principles for relating to familymembers, team members, and the host culture that God calls us to serve. Finally, since conflict is an inevitable partof life, we will consider its role, its levels, responses to it, and key principles to deal with it. Thank you for studyingwith us. We believe this journey will enrich your life and help equip you for ministry. (This course is designed for3 credits, based on 16 class hours per credit.)
Author: Marian de Souza
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 1222
ISBN-13: 1402090188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcknowledging and understanding spiritual formation is vital in contemporary education. This book explores the dynamic relationship between education and wellbeing. It examines the theory underpinning the practice of education in different societies where spirituality and care are believed to be at the heart of all educational experiences. The book recognizes that, regardless of the context or type of educational experience, education is a caring activity in which the development of the whole person - body, mind and spirit - is a central aim for teachers and educators in both formal and informal learning. The chapters in this handbook present and discuss topics that focus on spirituality as an integral part of human experience and, consequently, essential to educational programs which aim to address personal and communal identity, foster resilience, empathy and compassion, and promote meaning and connectedness.
