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Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility is unavailable, but you can change that!

Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately, all too often and even though we don't mean it, our actions communicate superiority, paternalism,...

Acceptance is the ability to communicate value, worth and esteem to another person. As in chapter four, we will look at supporting biblical concepts, ideas from the social science literature and the skills necessary to be accepting people.[3]