Cultural Insights for Christian Leaders

Cultural Insights for Christian LeadersChristianity Today 2019 Book Award Winner This volume helps leaders and leaders in training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is

or detached from real-life situations for introductory students

Grounded in scholarship yet accessible and inviting

communal prayer

are more knowledgeable of Jesus' ethical teachings in the Sermon the Mount than the Ethics of the Fathers in a Jewish prayer book

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In a time in which discourse is not always civil and language is not always tended carefully

and attends to the theological nature of the text

he takes a theologically rich look at numerous aspects of growing old

Why are so many Psalms filled with anger and sorrow

Rich in primary text engagement and comprehensive in scope

The results illustrate both the vitality of those traditions and the spiritual and moral relevance of Exodus for today's reader

The book presents the strengths and weaknesses in each of the major options