'Love your neighbour as yourself' isn't just a command for missionaries. It describes the spirit in which the ordinary Christian must resist the spirits of intolerance manifest by Neo-Naziism, ethnic cleansing, the troubles in N.Ireland, schoolhouse shootings, and other forms of social unrest - and win. We also talk about how Christians can better reach the cultures of the world.
This is not about the psychology of culture shock and its effect on travellers,
or on people relocating outside their home country, but rather, it deals with
chultural differences and conflicts as they affects the world Christian. If you
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why it isn’t as easy to
love someone from an obscure corner of the world as it is to love
someone from your own neighbourhood – and how to correct that
Chapter
2 – Who’s Culture? – or – The Benefits of
Coffee
why is western culture always
used for setting the parameters of what’s considered Christian?
conflicts
between cultures in general are covered in chapter 8, and thereafter,
we deal with conflict between ‘Christian culture’ and the
various cultures of the rest of the world, including the dominant
local culture and the various sub cultures
sums
up the previous chapters by showing how they all define the spirit in
which we must do warfare against the spiritual forces of cultural
intolerance manifested by Neo-Nazism, ethnic cleansing, white
supremacy, schoolhouse shootings, terrorism and social unrest
what
is Christian culture? Is it a good thing? A discussion of possible
scriptural precidents and how they help us know where to draw the
line in regards to our involvement with the world. The experience of
the early Church
a
history of how ‘Christian culture’ has slowly become more
open and more flexible. The barriers that yet exist and some of the
more radical strategies currently being applied towards total
cultural adaptation of the Christian message
what keeps the Christian message
from being understood by other cultures? Three barriers: 1 - values
and other protective factors inherent in each culture, and wisdom in
getting around them; 2 - the history of cultural interaction, and
perceptions of who the ‘bad guys’ are; and 3 - political
culture
what is the church? A non
cultural definition: a network linking communities from all cultures
through their realisation of Jesus being Christ, Son of the living
God
