Crossing Cultures in Scripture
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14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Cross-Cultural Category
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a crosscultural book. Scripture is full of narratives of God's people crossing cultures in pursuit of God's mission. Biblical texts shed light on mission dynamics: Sarah and Hagar functioning in an honor-shame culture, Moses as a multicultural leader, Ruth as a crosscultural conversion, David and Uriah illustrating power distance, the queen of Sheba as an international truth-seeker, Daniel as a transnational student, Paul in Athens as a model of contextualization, and much more.
Missionary and missions professor Marvin Newell provides a biblical theology of culture and mission, mining thedepths of Scripture to tease out missiological insights and crosscultural perspectives. Unlike other such books that are organized topically, this text is organized canonically, revealing how the whole of Scripture speaks to contemporary mission realities.
Comprehensive in scope, filled with biblical insight and missional expertise, this book is an essential resource for students and practitioners of crosscultural ministry and mission.
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Marvin J. Newell (DMiss, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is senior vice president of Missio Nexus, a network of evangelical mission agencies, churches and training centers in North America. Previously, he was the executive director of CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA) and he served with TEAM as a missionary to Indonesia for twenty-one years and then as the Asia-Pacific regional director. Following that he was professor of missions and intercultural studies at the Moody Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is the author of A Martyr?s Grace, Commissioned: What Jesus Wants You to Know as You Go and Expect Great Things: Mission Quotes that Inform and Inspire.
Content
Topical Guide Foreword by Patrick Fung Preface Part I: Foundational Cultural Considerations 1. Introduction to Culture 2. Eden: The Beginning of Human Culture 3. The Tower of Babel: Beginning ofCultural Diversity 4. Abraham: The Father of Blessing for All Cultures Part II: Crossing Cultures in the Old Testament 5. Sarah and Hagar: Honor and Shame 6. Abraham and The Hittites: Needing a Favor in aForeign Land 7. The Marriage of Jacob: Consequence of Crosscultural Ignorance 8. Joseph: A Victim of Crosscultural Human Trafficking 9. Moses: A Multicultural leader 10. The Israelite Community: Tribes, Clans and Families 11. Rahab: The Informed Pagan Prostitute 12. Ruth: A Crosscultural Conversion 13. David and Uriah: The Interplay of Power-Distance 14. Solomon and Queen of Sheba: Crosscultural Truth Seeker 15. Naaman: Dilemma of Conflicting Religious Obligation 16. Jonah: Ethnocentrism to a Fault 17. Jeremiah: Instructions for Living in a Foreign Land 18. Daniel: Staying True to God As a Transnational Student 19. Esther: Saving Her People from Genocide 20. Nehemiah:Leading a "Despised" Cultural Minority Part III: Crossing Cultures in the New Testament 21. Jesus: His Crosscultural Encounters 22. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman: Contrasting Worldviews 23. The Lord's Prayer for Missionaries 24. Jesus' Seven Marks of Crosscultural Success 25. Pontius Pilate: The Clueless Crosscultural Interrogator 26. Acts 1:8: The Crosscultural Mission of the Church 27. The Jerusalem Church: Crosscultural Conflict Management 28. Philip: Reaching the "The Second-Class" 29. Peter's Encounter with Cornelius: Crossing the Great Divide 30. Paul in Athens: Contextualizing the Message 31. Crosscultural Advance: Luke's One Last Word 32. The Self-Contextualizing of the Messenger 33. 1 Corinthians 13: A Guide to Crosscultural Awareness 34. The Incarnational Missionary 35. Crosscultural Pilgrimage: Sojourning Like Abraham 36. Eternity: Doxological Diversity Appendix A: Sermon Series Guide Appendix B: Crosscultural Encounters in the Book of Judges Appendix C: Crosscultural Encounters in the Book of Acts Appendix D: Frequency of the Quadruplet Terms for Humankind in the Book of Revelation Bibliography List of Figures and Tables Name Index Scripture Index
