Agents of Transformation: A Guide for Effective Cross-Cultural Ministry
Overview
In Agents of Transformation, anthropologist Sherwood G. Lingenfelter presents expert guidance for those working abroad. He helps both missionaries and church planters become aware of how the Gospel cuts across cultural biases. His wisdom helps cross-cultural ministers understand and transform culture, instead of Westernizing it.
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- Explores how the Gospel cuts across cultural biases
- Presents expert guidance for those working abroad
- Offers insight into transforming culture, instead of Westernizing it
- Market, Government, Mosque, and Church: The Social Contexts of Change
- The Five Social “Ways of Life”
- Understanding Social Environment
- Property Interests and Cultural Bias
- Labor Interests and Cultural Bias
- Exchange Interests and Cultural Bias
- Family Authority and Cultural Bias
- Community Authority and Cultural Bias
- Conflict, Political Interests, and Cultural Bias
- Ritual, Social Interests, and Cultural Bias
- Cosmology and Cultural Bias
- Cultural Bias in a Mission Organization
- Ideas and Interests: The Dynamics of Culture
- A Pilgrim Lifestyle in Economic Relations
- A Pilgrim Lifestyle in Family and Community
- Agents of Transformation
Top Highlights
“Fieldworkers who master these tools of research are competent to assess both their own and local community biases and are equipped to help new believers become agents of transformation in their society. Once mission leaders and new believers understand their respective biases, and together see the gospel transforming their respective perceptions of the world, they may engage others in dialogue and convey the gospel to them in a way that leads to freedom and transformation.” (Page 11)
“First Douglas and then colleagues who have followed her lead have argued that all human beings are constrained by cultural bias inherent in the particular social environment in which they live and work. From these structural arrangements people embrace a particular set of values and foundational premises regarding nature, society, and others. Individuals who take exception to the predominant cultural bias face the dilemma of subverting their community’s beliefs and values, or of moving into another socio-cultural system, or of withdrawing altogether. Contending that these social environments are universal and that it is impossible for human beings to live apart from them unless one becomes a hermit, Douglas concludes that it is impossible to become free of cultural bias.” (Page 10)
“accommodating the gospel to the bias of any system leads to cultural conformity rather than biblical transformation” (Page 10)
“Once we are aware of habits and cultural bias and are willing to do his will, we may then engage in the spiritual disciplines—the plans and practice—through which we break free from our habits and embark on a life of pilgrimage as effective servants of Jesus Christ.” (Page 239)
- Title: Agents of Transformation: A Guide for Effective Cross-Cultural Ministry
- Author: Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 1996
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 282
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Missions › Anthropological aspects; Intercultural communication; Christianity and culture; Missions › Theory; Evangelistic work
- ISBNs: 9781441249128, 0801020689, 9780801020681, 1441249125
- Resource ID: LLS:AGNTTRNSFRM
- Resource Type: Monograph
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