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Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World is unavailable, but you can change that!

As twenty-first-century society grows increasingly complex, pluralistic, and multicultural, it behooves Christians to communicate effectively between and among diverse populations. Research indicates that missions often fail because of cultural collision and lack of empathy and understanding between different peoples. David Livermore proposes a meta model—based on sound research principles and...

viewed according to the theological framework we developed in chapter 2, we’re wise to plan in light of what we intuit about a specific cultural context. We need to draw on our cultural understanding to think about how what we’re presenting will be received. Interpretive CQ is the dimension of cultural intelligence most desperately lacking in the cross-cultural behavior of many American ministry leaders. A large portion of this book, part 3, is devoted to helping us enhance our ability to develop
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