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Crossing Cultures: Table Manners
[…] airport and traveled together on a bus to the retreat center. I was surprised that the bus driver often dodged over to the right shoulder of the freeway to pass slower moving traffic, and I was thinking—this is not how busses travel on US highways. We passed through a stunningly beautiful bamboo forest with […]
Crossing Cultures: Missio Dei and Missionary Formation
[…] has a mission to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to all unreached peoples, and when we fulfill that mission, the Lord will return. It is better said that the God of mission has a church, a people he shapes and sends in collaboration with missio dei. God himself accomplishes missionary formation through […]
One Tip for Effective Communication in China
The Rule of Three
Effective communication requires engagement from both ends of the communication cycle—both the ability to send a message and receive feedback from your audience. Using this cycle to reach a common understanding is more of an art than a science—even when we communicate with others from our home culture. However, it is even more challenging when communicating cross-culturally in China.
Book Reviews
A Pentecostal Perspective on the Chinese Union Version
[…] Presbyterian Mission, Chuancey Goodrich, a Congregational missionary, and F. W. Baller, a Baptist missionary. Jenny Everts, “Tongues or Languages? Contextual Consistency in the Translation of Acts 2,” <em>Journal of Pentecostal Theology</em> Vol. 2 Issue 4 (1994): 71-80. <em>Annual Report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom</em>, 16-17, available at: <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/annual-reports">Annual Reports | USCIRF</a>.
Crossing Cultures: Theology versus theology
Their critical contextualization of who belonged in Jesus’s kingdom, who were the real Christians, freed the gospel from ethnic cultural imprisonment, and opened the door to for an all-peoples Church.
Book Reviews
Children: At the Heart of Mission
[…] downloaded from www. viva.org/lausanne without charge. Reviewed by Ian A. As Christians seek to demonstrate the love of Christ to a skeptical, cynical world, there is no better focus to have than children” (p. 11). Nevertheless, the Victorian saying, “Children are to be seen and not heard” too often resonates with churches and Christian […]
Supporting Article
Single Women Ministering in China
The author looks briefly at pertinent facts regarding a woman’s role in China, in the church, and for single women serving in the church. She details seven motivating factors that keep single women active in ministry.
Crossing Cultures: Conveying the Gospel
Worldviews are extraordinarily resistant to change, and archetypical cultural and gospel metaphors shape how missionaries convey the gospel across cultural boundaries. That is why it is so important for Chinese missiologists to “understand and critically integrate” imported cultural and metaphor worldview presuppositions lest what they “staunchly affirmed as biblical may have had more to do with nurturing cultural mores…than with God’s eternal truth,” as Brent Fulton writes.
Social Media in China (Part 3)
Tips for Using Social Tools to Connect with Chinese Colleagues
[…] share. For example, while working in China, I led the creation of a WeChat community for the colleagues I frequently sat near in the office. We could freely share information within our group without sending it to all of people we were connected with on WeChat. Now that I am no longer living in […]
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A 150 Percent Person
We can work toward becoming what Sherwood Lingenfelter described as a 150 percent person, a person who retains 75 percent of their birth culture and adopts 75 percent of their new culture. Such a person becomes more than they used to, able to minister cross-culturally with greater empathy and impact.