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Crossing Cultures: The Promise and the Blessing
As with Abram, so with us: we are the beneficiaries of that promise and blessing. We are invited to leave, to go, to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth with Jesus Christ, the living image of our living God. Going includes learning to minister cross-culturally. That is our blessing, our calling, our mission.
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 […]
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A 150 Percent Person
[…] of every missionary, and possibly every Christian, should be to become at least a 150 percent person.”5 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: 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.
Crossing Cultures: Enlightenment and the Middle Kingdom
[…] To give some perspective, a person can survive, barely, on 1 pound of rice per day, 365 pounds per year. Eight thousand pounds of rice could sustain 20 human lives for a year. California’s rice lands produce enough food to sustain 4 billion people for a year. That productivity is a triumph of Enlightenment-enabled […]
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: Theology versus theology
[…] people’s deepest needs and penetrates their worldview, thus allowing them to follow Christ and remain within their own culture.16 That process of engaging culture with Scripture is called critical contextualization and is best accomplished in a hermeneutical community of mature and seasoned leaders who are led and inspired by the Holy Spirit to understand […]
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Teaching in China—the Early Years
<p>Ms. Anderson, who began teaching in China in the early 1980s, reflects on how different—and often difficult—it was for English teachers during those early years.</p>
The Next Decade of the Church in China
[…] from international organizations like Gallup and Pew have shown that the proportion of Christians in China is around 2%. A survey by Renmin University about 10 to 20 years ago found that the proportion of Christians on campus was around 3%. Through various research and observations, I personally tend to believe that the number […]
Summer 2024 Reading Recommendations
[…] humanist account about the promises and pitfalls of migration and mixed-ethnic households. Available from C. Hurst and Amazon. Faith Across Continents Michelle Woods reviewed the memoir of our contributor Peter Anderson, entitled Africa to China with Love: A Lifelong Missional Adventure. She writes warmly of the book, As I read the book Africa to China with Love, […]