Tag: cross-cultural

Intercultural Church

From Surviving to Thriving

From Surviving to Thriving: Adjusting to Life and Work Cross-Culturally. An Unreached Network Collaboration  This post was born out of a discussion during one of our Unreached Network Internship and

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Mission

Packing Light

“Then Jesus asked them, ‘When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?’ ‘Nothing,’ they answered.” — Luke 22:35 We came across this verse just as

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Mission

passive cross-cultural leadership

Passivity or reactivity is under appreciated in Western leadership manuals. What is celebrated is initiative, forward movement, aggression. The Western leader thinks about his own strategy and vision, throws pieces forward. He does not adequately consider the contours of the culture, the whole board of history and geography and the entrenched dispositions of the status quo into which he or she is stepping.

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Bible

Moses: The Stranger

“And he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” Exodus 2:22 Gershom’s name comes from the 3-letter verbal root in Hebrew

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