The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication
“We have had the Bible in our language, but we still couldn’t understand what it meant.” That’s what Hill’s main assistant said to her when …
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The Changing Face of World Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends
Kaleidoscopic changes loom over global Christian missionary activity at the beginning of this new century. Established patterns of knowing and doing m…
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
This book is for international missionaries. Or, is it? More correctly, this book is for every Christian who anticipates witnessing across cultural li…
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies
How many of us have attempted to teach modern management techniques in another culture only to find nationals invariably returning to their accustomed…
Tentmaking: Business as Missions
This book is the definitive work for contemporary tentmaking. Patrick Lai has composed a very extensive and highly-practical resource birthed from man…
Paradigms in Conflict: Ten Key Questions in Christian Missions Today
As one whose missionary ministry has spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, Dr. David Hesselgrave has been an active and reflective …
The Centrality of Christ in Contemporary Missions
This book is number twelve in the annual Evangelical Missiological Society series.
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
Serving with Eyes Wide Open helps short-termers understand cultural pitfalls and gain cultural intelligence.
Sharing Jesus Effectively in the Buddhist World
Eleven well-researched and well-documented chapters that deal with a wide range of topics and techniques on sharing Jesus among Buddhists.
Unveiling God: Contextualizing Christology for Islamic Culture
Martin Parsons sets himself a profound and weighty task—that of spelling out a different way of conveying to Muslims the reality of who Jesus is.