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Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new, albeit very biblical, model for mission. Specifically, it is a model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model “giftive mission,” as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that...

• We do the work of mission better, without succumbing to the temptations of power and manipulation and triumphalism, when we ratchet down our pride and become gift givers and gift receivers rather than mini-saviors of the world. Wherever and whenever faithful mission has been done in the past two thousand years, it has been with a focus on certain gift-giving practices to the exclusion of others (see chapters 4–15). Conversely, when Christian mission has been done poorly, it is because good practices
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