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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 266.001
EAN: 9780801026478
ISBN: 0801026474
Label: Baker Academic
Manufacturer: Baker Academic
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: October 01, 2003
Publisher: Baker Academic
Sales Rank: 9974
Studio: Baker Academic
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In Ministering Cross-Culturally, the authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The authors examine how this can help us better understand what it means to establish relationships of grace with those from different cultural and social backgrounds. With more than 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this incarnational model of ministry has proven successful for many people. Several sections in this second edition have been rewritten, and the entire book has been updated to reflect development in the authors' thinking. Drawing from the authors' rich experience on the mission field, this book will benefit anyone who wants to be salt and light in a multicultural and multiethnic world.
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Rating:  - Interesting concept, but poorly supported logically and doctrinally
"Ministering Cross-Culturally" is a practical book useful for all Christians, bur intended specifically for those who minister among people of another culture. Cultural differences often lead to misunderstandings and conflict as a person of one culture does not behave as a person from another culture expects. To avoid prolonged conflict, Sherwood Lingenfelter, provost and senior vice president of Fuller Theological Seminary, presents the anthropological work of Marvin Mayers and applies it to cross cultural ministry.
Marvin Mayers work analyzes cultural values and divides them into twelve dimensions. Each of these dimensions has a contrasting value, making six competing value pairs that can be plotted on a grid. Lingenfelter provides a simple test so that the reader might plot himself on a each of the six grids, and determine his personal/cultural values. These pairs of values are as follows:
Time (time conscious and punctual versus event-oriented)
Judgment (seeing the world in "black & white" versus "shades of grey)
Handling Crises (focus on preparation versus comfort thinking on your feet)
Goals (task orientation versus relationship orientation)
Individual Worth (is honor achieved by works or bestowed at birth)
Vulnerability (is it OK to show weakness?)
Lingenfelter then analyzes the six pairs of values to illustrate the similarities and differences between Western values, Yapese (from the Island of Yap, where Lingenfelter ... Read More
Rating:  - very helpful for those ministering in other cultures
I have studied and prepared for overseas mission work in the past, and this book was not on my list. After reading it, i am recommending it for others i know in training. It reviews many of the factors that influence how we relate to others and is quite eye opening.
Rating: - The classic text, but some problems
The objective of Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships, according to the authors' statement on page 124, is "to show that the incarnation of Christ is a model for missionary and other Christian ministry." The book is essentially an interpretation by Sherwood Lingenfelter of Marvin Mayers' model of basic values and the relation of this model to incarnational ministry. On page 14, Lingenfelter states that his goal is to "share some of the conflicts and struggles that [he] experienced and to explore their meaning for the larger issues of cross-cultural living, work, and ministry... [by going] beyond specific personal experiences to the underlying principles of culture and communication," through which interpersonal relationships are maintained. He claims, as a central thesis, the universality of Scripture and the love example of Jesus Christ.
While, for the most part, Lingenfelter's thoughts were well-reasoned and insightful, there were some concepts that were uncomfortably flawed or biased.
The first area of consideration is that of generalizations. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of this was the conclusion drawn by the author upon finishing a study at the State University of New York College at Brockport. On page 48, Lingenfelter notes that, because those surveyed tended to be event-oriented, "American college students today are not as time-conscious and as highly motivated to keep a schedule as their culture would want them to be." It would ... Read More
Rating:  - Great resource for any Christian
This book is one that I would recommend to any Christian who encounters someone from a different culture (hopefully that means all Christians). This book helps the believer to understand how to be more like Christ, who came to our world as a different culture. It helps the reader to recognize how our own culture is often deterministic of how we view others and how we act, even in things as simple as what time we arrive at a meeting. This is a must read for anyone who will do missions. I read it as a counselor and have recommended it to many people in the church.
Rating: - Ministering Cross Culturally
This is a helpful book to give an introduction to how culture not only shapes others, but our own thinking. Understanding this is critical to thougthfully crossing cultures. The book is not exhaustive in the areas a culture shapes, but is a helpful start.
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