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Crossing Cultures: Enlightenment and the Middle Kingdom
The Lord builds his church, and the church he constructs will look a bit different in each climate and landscape. It is the seed that has power to grow roots down into deeply buried cultural expressions and expectations, roots that will produce fruit fitting the context, fruit that is both beautiful and empowering.
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History: It’s Essential
[…] ideas that are new to us are only that: new to us. There are few things that are truly unprecedented. Reading of history is liberating: we are freed from the obligation to reinvent the wheel. We ignore history at our peril but are rewarded for our veneration of its lessons. Nowhere is this more […]
Sharing the Gospel: Franchise or Indigenization?
Nothing succeeds like success, and many Christian ministries have adopted a franchise-like pattern based on a founder’s compelling vision facilitated by a highly structured and quality-controlled delivery system…[But] can the gospel be franchised? I think not.
Social Media in China
Why Social Matters
Social media is impacting societies across the globe, but China's social technology landscape is unique and largely unknown to those outside China. Honestly, how many people outside of China have ever heard of any of the popular social technology brands listed in the image below?
Crossing Cultures: Boundary Events and Paradigm Shifts
[…] feel as if our very foundations have been shaken, and in some cases such as severe culture shock, the experience is painful. Painful but essential for the freeing worldview transformation that follows and allows us to recognize that everything has changed, and that at our very core, we are more closely aligned in our […]
Is There a Role for the Western Church in China?
<p>I have been reflecting recently on Brent Fulton’s challenge to rethink partnership between Western and Chinese churches. I have had an interest in the church in China for the past twenty years and have traveled there frequently for a variety of reasons—including work with several Chinese churches. My PhD thesis focused on historical efforts to […]
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
Expectations for new missionaries as well as for their sending bodies should include a long-term developmental perspective that recognizes on-field difficulties as expected and as the normative shaping events God intentionally uses to develop cross-cultural ministry capacity.
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Christianity’s Impact on Chinese Society
[…] of Chinese, particularly in the cities, have been improved by the economic miracle that their country has achieved. Less impressive has been the progress towards greater political freedom, the urgency of which has no doubt been blunted by the economic gains. Anecdotal evidence from those who observe the Christian scene in China suggests that […]
Crossing Cultures: Perspective and Spiritual Maturity
[…] the world’s best cook.16 In other words, when our own cultural perspective is extremely limited, our capacity for ministering cross-culturally will likewise be significantly constrained. The difference between mono-cultural ministry and ministering cross-culturally is perspective; the difference between ministering cross-culturally and abundantly fruitful ministering cross-culturally is better perspective. If you want a lifetime of […]
Comparing Peaches and Coconuts
More on Indirect Communications
<p>When we encounter cross-cultural differences like the indirect communication style featured in my recent post on the rule of three we have a choice. You either complain about the difference and become frustrated or seek to understand it better and adapt. </p>