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Seven bestowals of honor—when God called Abraham
Seven bestowals of honor The Call of Abraham is found in Genesis 12:1–3. If we understand that blessing is an important way of bestowing honor in an honor-shame culture, then I contend that inside of...
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Three reasons to read the Bible through the “lens of honor and shame”
#1: When we understand that the ancient world of the Bible is characterized by the pivotal cultural value of honor and shame—we can better understand God’s Word. The Greek philosopher Aristotle...
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Free presentation on honor and shame (and other resources)
“Big Shame or Big Honor? Exploring the Dynamics of Honor and Shame in Cross-Cultural Partnership” — digital slide presentation Note: Since this was first posted, a fuller list of resources is...
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Article by Jackson Wu concerning honor-shame dynamics in the Chinese church
An article by Jackson Wu about honor and shame in the Chinese church appeared in the October 2011 issue of Global Missiology. (Permission granted for use of image above.) To what extent does Chinese...
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Four steps—and a free guide—to help you read the Bible in the language of...
You do not have to be a professional cross-cultural worker or Bible scholar to read and understand the Bible in the “language of honor and shame”. Most anyone can do it if they familiarize themselves...
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What does it mean to contextualize the gospel?
The great missionary-theologian Lesslie Newbigin asked, “How can the gospel ‘come alive’ in all these different cultural contexts, and still be the same authentic gospel? That is the problem of...
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Available for preview—THE GLOBAL GOSPEL: Achieving Missional Impact in Our...
I’ve been working since February on a book concerning honor and shame in cross-cultural ministry. The unfinished book is now going out for initial reviews. Three sections are done; one section to go....
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Here’s an update on the progress of my book, The Global Gospel
Since February 2012, I’ve been working on a major book called, THE GLOBAL GOSPEL: Achieving Missional Impact in Our Multicultural World. It’s a book about honor/shame dynamics in the Bible and what it...
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It’s not your book!
“We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a cross-cultural experience.”[1] If you are a Christian from North America (or Northern Europe and Australia or...
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What does it mean to contextualize the gospel?
Yesterday I shared a post about the “Canopy of Biblical Truth” (click here). We saw that the Bible contains some dualities, paradoxes, seeming contradictions. Some readers might think … Okay, I get...
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Free honor-shame training webinar November 16th with visionSynergy
Webinar title: “Giving Honor: Key to Healthy Cross-Cultural Partnerships” Healthy cross-cultural collaboration is vital to the witness of the gospel in a lost and fractured world (John 17:21). However,...
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Free presentation on solving honor competition in cross-cultural collaboration
The presentation I gave last month with visionSynergy is now available for free at my SlideShare site. The presentation is called “Giving Honor: A Key to Fruitful Cross-Cultural Partnerships”. View...
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