Lambs Dancing With Wolves
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Reaching people means crossing cultural boundaries;meeting people whose ways of life differ radically from our own.This involves facing the threats and traps of learning languages and new customs.
God`s command is to spread the love and good news of Jesus to all people.The title of this book is based on Jesus` instruction to his disciples in Luke 10:I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.` Christ does not send us, his lambs to live among wolves in order to be hurt or harmed, but rather to befriend them and win them over.
This comprehensive manual includes chapters on language, empathy, culture shock, appreciating other cultures, presenting the gospel, leadership, marriage and singleness, quality of life, and much more.
I welcome the warmly relational approach of this helpful book, and commend it to anyone considering crossing cultures for God - Gordon Showell-Rogers. European Evangelical Alliance.
An outstanding book...It made me reflect on my own ministry and ask "What am I really accomplishing?" - Frank Retief. Cape Area Bishop, South Africa.
If you are a missionary, in training,or thinking of taking your profession overseas, this is frankly an indispensable book.
Our screens are full of science fiction encounters with aliens.But a far more accessible adventure lies at our doorsteps:reaching out with the Gospel to those of those of other cultures. You need not travel far.Today a family from an unfamiliar culture probably lives accros the street.
The privilege of crossing cultural boundaries, and encountering people whose ways of thinking, language and customs differ radically from our own,is a source of excitement.It also presents traps and sometimes threats.Yet to remain monocultureal today is to impoverish oneself and to leave vast areas of ou potential memory banks as empty vaults.
God`s command is to spead the love and good news of Jesus to all people. Dr Griffiths` title is based on Jesus`s instructions to his disciples in Luke 10:`I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves.` Christ does not send his lambs - us - out to live among wolves to destroy them or to be destroyed,but rather to bond with them and win them over.
This comprehensive manual includes chapters on language,culture shock,appreciating `wolf` culture,presenting the Gospel,leadership, marriage and singleness,quality of life and much more.
About the Author
The Rev.Dr.Michael Griffiths has served as General Director in Asia for OMF,as Principal of London Bible College, as a professor at Regent College, Vancouver, and most recently as an IFES minister at large. He is author of many books.
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