Ministering Cross-Culturally: A Model for Effective Personal Relationships

Nice book to recommend

If you haven’t already been exposed to the variety and polarized values of different cultures around the world, this overview is sure to blow your mind. It’s great to have language for and familiarity with the way others think in other countries or maybe just the foreigner across the street.

Honestly, this is the best book I have read on the topic. It’s scholarly but not dry, a dense and compact and impactful read. The authors get more in this 120+ pages than in all of Duane Elmer’s entire canon on the same subject. As near as I can tell, this edition is different in that they moved some material around and slightly changed the title to appeal to a general audience. Otherwise, it’s the same jewel as the 2nd edition.I am an organizational social scientist who has studied cross-cultural competence at a doctoral level, and I can say that there is a robust foundation of scholarship underlying the book that doesn’t get in the way of the message. For example, I am using this book with a group of leaders who are working on how to better integrate different cultural groups within our church and to be more effective in our changing community. Feedback is showing that the concepts in this book are eye-opening and likely to be life-changing.

This book is amazingly articulate and very well written. I can see the applications in my life already and am excited (and a bit nervous) to watch all the issues and their respective spectrums play out as I depart to learn a new culture. Will definitely be using this book as a reference to better understand, accept and learn another culture soon!

Although I read this as an adjunct to a Cambodian mission trip, I highly recommend this book for improving interpersonal relationships around you, both common and uncommon. It sparks both personal evaluation as well as curiosity towards others and an openness too both. It then expands human culture and reminds us as Christians that our citizenship is in heaven so our priorities here are not culture bound but God breathed in the person of Jesus and his examples/priorities.

This is the most simple overview of culture for a cross-cultural worker! Many difficult concepts are made real through concrete stories

I read this in hawaii when i should have been in class

This book helps with the big picture on key ideas, whereas "Christianity Confronts Culture" is much fuller in concepts and material. The only constraint is "Christianity Confronts Culture" is exclusively a hard copy and is no where to be found thus far as an ebook. Hopefully, the book will also come to Kindle to provide a fuller resource to "Ministering Cross-Culturally."

A great book for all who are ministering in a culture different from their own. Helpful at different stages of ministry. I read it after ten years abroad and benefited tremendously, but it would also have been a great help in the beginning of my career... maybe I would have failed that time to trust and believe the author the way I did now ;-)

In cross cultural development of leadership for yourself and the people you want to serve. Excellent examples from the field and good working models.