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Sharing the Gospel: Franchise or Indigenization?
[…] my baby-sized A&W root beer cup that dates to the late 1950s. Sometimes after Sunday evening church services my family would take the ten-minute drive from our 200-person farm town to a nearby real town for a mug of frosty root beer. That was my first exposure to a fast-food franchise. A rarity in […]
Crossing Cultures: Perspective and Spiritual Maturity
[…] dumplings taste pretty good too! Darrell L. Whiteman, <em>Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness</em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic-Baker Publishing Group, 2024), Kindle edition, loc. 417. This statement is derived from Bobby Clinton’s findings that “The difference between leaders and followers is perspective. The difference between leaders and […]
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A 150 Percent Person
[…] of every missionary, and possibly every Christian, should be to become at least a 150 percent person.”16 Jesus Christ was perfectly formed for ministering cross-culturally. He was 200 percent person, 100 percent God, and 100 percent human, fully attuned to God his Father and fully aligned with his native culture. John’s transcendent language in […]
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
[…] took Peter and others on a short-term cross-cultural mission trip across the Sea of Galilee to the northeastern lake shore, the region of the Gerasenes (Mark 4:35–5: 20). What should have been an easy sail for professional fisherman turned into a life-threatening experience. Crossing geographical barriers with the gospel presented unexpected challenges as did […]
Crossing Cultures: Missio Dei and Missionary Formation
[…] is a theme in Bobby Clinton’s Leadership Emergence Theory, popularized in <em>The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development</em> by Robert Clinton, 2012. Genesis 15:1-6, ESV, my excerpts and parentheses. All biblical quotes in the blog are taken from the ESV. Genesis 17. Genesis 18:17-33. Note especially verse 33: […]
Crossing Cultures: Ethnocentric Conversion
[…] with the greatest blessing ever given. Ministering cross-culturally requires what Darrell Whiteman calls ethnocentric conversion, the kind of transformation Peter experienced in Acts 10 (See below: Whiteman 2018; Whiteman 2022; and Whiteman 2023). The Apostle Peter’s ethnocentric conversion exploded into fullness through an unanticipated personal interaction with Cornelius, a Gentile military officer who lived […]
Crossing Cultures: Theology versus theology
[…] Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1986. Kindle Edition, locations 2414–2843. Darrell L. Whiteman, “Contextualization: The Theory, the Gap, the Challenge,” <em>International Bulletin of Missionary Research</em> 21, no. 1 (1997): 2–7. Jay W. Moon and A. Moreau. <em>Intercultural Discipleship: Learning from Global Approaches to Spiritual Formation</em>. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017. Kindle edition, p. 36.
Editorials
Returnee Ministry: Reflecting on Developments
[…] Chinese students studying abroad dropped (it is now rising again), the number of Chinese students and scholars returning to China has remained high—around 700,000 per year. In 2021, the total number of returnees to China exceeded one million. There are no clear statistics on how many of these returnees are Christians, but assuming the […]
Crossing Cultures: Table Manners
Ministering cross-culturally is critical for fruitful missionary engagement. As the Chinese missionary movement matures and expands and goes where no man or woman of the gospel has gone before, cross-cultural ministry praxis will become increasingly critical.