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Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships, 2nd ed.

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, 2003
ISBN: 9781441249715
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Overview

Ministering Cross-Culturally examines the significance of the Incarnation for effective cross-cultural ministry. The authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The Incarnational model offered in this book has proved to be successful for thousands of ministers. Several sections in this second edition have been rewritten and the book has been updated to reflect development in the authors’ thinking.

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  • Examines the significance of the Incarnation for effective cross-cultural ministry
  • Presents an updated edition to reflect the development in the authors’ thinking
  • Demonstrates Jesus’ need to learn and understand the culture in which he lived
  • God’s Metaphor for Ministry: The Incarnation
  • A Model of Basic Values
  • Tensions about Time
  • Tensions Regarding Judgment
  • Tensions Associated with Handling Crises
  • Tensions over Goals
  • Tensions about Self-Worth
  • Tensions Regarding Vulnerability
  • Becoming 150-Percent Persons

Top Highlights

“Culture, then, is the conceptual design, the definitions by which people order their lives, interpret their experiences, and evaluate the behavior of others.” (Page 18)

“A central thesis of this book is that the Bible speaks to all people and all cultures and that Jesus Christ is the only faithful example of divine love in interpersonal relationships and communication. Jesus is God with us—the reality of the love of God in human experience.” (Pages 14–15)

“The first significant fact about the incarnation is that Jesus came as a helpless infant.” (Page 16)

“The first step in the process of incarnation is learning the language.” (Page 27)

“We must love the people to whom we minister so much that we are willing to enter their culture as children, to learn how to speak as they speak, play as they play, eat what they eat, sleep where they sleep, study what they study, and thus earn their respect and admiration. In essence, we must leave our prison, enter their prison, and become full participants within it.” (Pages 24–25)

With vivid insight, lively narrative, and down-to-earth practicality, this book, by leading Christian anthropologists, is essential reading for anyone interested in ministering cross-culturally.

—Robert Priest, associate professor of mission and intercultural studies, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Sherwood G. Lingenfelter (1932–2007) was distinguished professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and previously taught at Fuller Theological Seminary. He also served as a pastor and missionary to India. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and was the author or coauthor of numerous articles and books in the fields of anthropology and missions.

Marvin K. Mayers/b> has taught for many years in the intercultural studies department of Biola University.

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