Making Disciples Across Cultures
Missional Principles for a Diverse World
- 236 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Culture affects how we make disciples. We often unconsciously bring our own cultural assumptions into ministry and mission, not realizing that how we think and operate is not necessarily the best or only way to do things. In today's global environment, disciplemaking requires the cultural humility and flexibility to adapt between different cultural approaches.Charles Davis, former director of TEAM, provides a framework for missional disciplemaking across diverse cultural contexts. He shows how we can recalibrate our ministry efforts, like adjusting sound levels on a mixer board, to accommodate different cultural assumptions. With on-the-ground stories from a lifetime of mission experience, Davis navigates such tensions as knowledge and behavior, individualism and collectivism, and truth and works to help Christian workers minister more effectively.Ministry teams, church planters, pastors and missionaries working interculturally at home or overseas can be part of God's movement of making disciples. Discover how the body of Christ grows in the unity and diversity of the global church.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: My Journey as Disciple and Disciple Maker
- 1 What Is a Disciple Anyway?
- 2 Disciples Let God Lead from the Invisible World: The Visible and the Invisible
- 3 Disciples Hear and Obey: Knowledge and Behavior
- 4 Disciples Develop Relational Interdependence: Individualism and Collectivism
- 5 Disciples Do What Love Requires: Gospel Truth and Works Justice
- 6 Disciples Make Disciples: Preaching and Group Interaction
- 7 Leaders Equip Disciples for Ministry: Equippers and Ministers
- 8 Disciples Live an Undivided Life: Public and Private
- 9 Disciples Engage in Personal and Cultural Transformation: Personal and Cultural
- 10 Disciples Keep the End in Mind: Church and Kingdom
- 11 Disciples Organize Flexibly and Purposefully: Relationships and Organization
- 12 Glimpses of a Disciple-Making Community
- Study Questions by Dietrich Gruen
- Notes
- Index
- Praise for Making Disciples Across Cultures
- About the Author
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