Crossing Cultures with Jesus: Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street.
We now have unprecedented opportunities to meet people from every culture and nation. International study and global migration allow us to build relationships with Buddhists and Muslims, students from Singapore and workers from the Middle East. But how do we share the gospel with people from different cultures and worldviews?
Crosscultural evangelism can be scary. But veteran crosscultural minister Katie Rawson shows how we can witness the way Jesus did, entering into people's worlds and drawing them into God-centered community. She equips readers to evangelize Jesus' way, depending on him as companion and guide and venturing out in joy to be and share good news.
Filled with compelling stories, practical resources and relational tools, this guide gives crosscultural training and shows how you can share the gospel through story and diagram, with clear communication and authentic community.
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- Provides a treasure trove of ideas and motivation for acquiring the necessary skills for sharing Christ
- Offers lots of questions for reflection and Bible passages for meditation
- Shows that it is possible to share the good news of Jesus and still be gracious and sensitive as we relate crossculturally
Introduction: The Challenge and Opportunity of Crosscultural Evangelism
Love at the Heart of the Universe: A Completely Good and Beautiful God
Part I: Entering
- Keeping in Step with the Spirit
- Praying and Exercising Spiritual Authority
- Developing Trust Relationships
- Examining Worldview Lenses: Log and Specks
- Understanding Value Systems: Honor, Innocence, Joy and Power
Part II: Drawing In
- Communities that Draw In: Living and Sharing Good News
- Conversion in Community: Five Stages
- Communication that Connects
- Stories that Bring Change: Understanding and Sharing the Gospel
- Making Disciples in Community
Grounded in years of missions experience and biblical teaching, Rawson provides a powerful primer on understanding culture, developing crosscultural relationships, and communicating across cultures. A must-read for anyone hoping to serve and to share the gospel in crosscultural contexts!
Tom Lin, vice president, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, director of Urbana
Combining her extensive experience, great stories, disciplines of spiritual formation and thought-provoking reflection exercises, Katie Rawson has given us a go-to guide for training in crosscultural understanding, friendships and outreach. She helps the reader understand crosscultural conversion, worldviews and values, and spiritual warfare. This is a read-this-book-first resource for those who want to cross the street to befriend a Muslim neighbor, invite an Asian international student to their home or prepare for a short-term mission trip to India.
Paul Borthwick, senior consultant, Development Associates International, author of Great Commission, Great Compassion
We live in a world of neighborhoods, businesses, schools and churches that are increasingly diverse. To communicate a contagious faith in Jesus requires that we engage with those who are of very different cultures and worldviews. Katie Rawson provides a clear path through the many complex issues that we inevitably face while doing so. The book is filled with concrete and helpful tips on what to do and say in a wide variety of situations, but best of all, it is written with a deep sense of expectation of and dependence on the guidance of the Holy Spirit—the master of crosscultural communication.
Charles Davis, former director of TEAM, author of Making Disciples Across Cultures
- Title: Crossing Cultures with Jesus: Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
- Author: Katie J. Rawson
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780830898923, 0830898921, 9780830844388, 0830844384
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830898923
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T06:46:51Z