Discipling in a Multicultural World
Overview
Our multicultural world needs countercultural disciplers. People from all over the world are coming to Christ from a variety of backgrounds. This requires more people who are willing to commit to the effort and sacrifice it takes to invest in new believers.
Rooted in over four decades of multicultural discipleship experience, Ajith Fernando offers biblical principles for discipling and presents examples showing how they apply to daily life and ministry. He addresses key cultural challenges, such as the value of honor and shame, honoring family commitments, and dealing with persecution, and helps us think realistically about the cost and commitment required for productive cross-cultural ministry. This practical guide to discipleship will help us help others grow into mature and godly followers of Christ.
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- Offers biblical principles for discipling.
- Addresses key cultural challenges.
- Helps to grow into mature and godly followers of Christ.
A gifted teacher, communicator, and evangelist, Ajith Fernando has produced a most timely resource to equip today’s generation. In recent decades the church in the West has struggled to develop mature disciples. We have retreated into our dwindling communities with the occasional foray outside in the attempt to make converts. Fernando calls us to the task of developing mature disciples, and through the deepening of our faith we are better equipped to engage in the wider world.
--Stephen Skuce, Director of Global Relationships, The Methodist Church in Britain
Grounded in Scripture, rooted in decades of ministry, and colorfully illustrated from Sri Lanka and around the world, Ajith Fernando’s Discipling in a Multicultural World will enrich God’s people as we seek to make disciples among all nations. Much more than a classroom guide, it will motivate us to follow Fernando’s example, pouring our lives into others just as others poured their lives into his.
--David Greenlee, Director of Missiological Research and Evaluation, Operation Mobilization
How do we make disciples of Jesus in contexts of increasing ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity? Few people are as qualified to answer this question as the global Christian statesman Ajith Fernando. Drawing upon four decades of ministry worldwide and a seasoned scholar’s understanding of Scripture, Fernando provides us with a rich and wise guide to forming disciples among those from various cultural backgrounds. Essential insights for effective ministry today!
--Harold Netland, Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
- Title: Discipling in a Multicultural World
- Authors: Robert E. Coleman, Ajith Fernando
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and culture; Discipling (Christianity); Formation de disciples (Religion)
- ISBNs: 9781433562884, 9781433562877, 143356288X, 1433562871
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433562884
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:54:50Z