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Preaching with Cultural Intelligence: Understanding the People Who Hear Our Sermons is unavailable, but you can change that!

To preach effectively in today’s world, preachers need cultural intelligence. They must build bridges between listeners who come from various denominations, ethnicities, genders, locations, religious backgrounds, and more. Experienced preacher and teacher Matthew Kim provides a step-by-step template for cross-cultural hermeneutics and homiletics, equipping preachers to reach their varied...

cultural contexts, we want to know and understand ourselves. The concept of cultural intelligence, as Jared E. Alcántara states in his book Crossover Preaching, lacks self-exploration: “In many ways, Earley, Ang, and Tan [the early architects of cultural intelligence] do not go far enough in their discussion of culturally strategic thinking. They leave out an all-important step: critical reflexive thinking about one’s own cultural framework. Being a student of other cultures is insufficient. One
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