What does the Holy Spirit have to do with Christian worldview? Read evangelical books on the topic, and the answer seems to be, “Not much.” The index to one bestselling textbook, now in its sixth edition, lacks any reference to … Continue reading Beauty, Goodness, Truth and Pentecost
According to Jay Moon and Bud Simon, intercultural evangelism is “the process of putting Christ at the center of someone’s worldview in order to initiate them into Christian discipleship through culturally relevant starting points.” In this episode of the Influence … Continue reading Effective Intercultural Evangelism | Influence Podcast
The mission Jesus gave the Church extends to “all nations” (Matthew 28:19), meaning ethno-linguistic people groups, not countries. In the modern period, missions involved going from the West (Christendom) to the Rest (the Majority World). Today, however, the nations are … Continue reading Effective Intercultural Evangelism | Book Review
The subtitle of James W. Sire’s The University Next Door calls the book “a basic worldview catalog.” Chapter 1 defines the term worldview and enumerates eight questions worldviews ask. Chapters 2–10 describe how nine worldviews answer these questions, beginning with Christian theism, which is … Continue reading The Universe Next Door | Book Review
Factfulness begins with a pop quiz of thirteen questions about the state of the world. Each question has three possible answers, labeled A, B, and C. For example In the last 20 years, the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has… A: almost doubled B: remained more or less the same C: almost halved Hans Rosling has posed questions such as this to audiences worldwide for the last two decades. Invariably, audiences perform worse than chimpanzees randomly picking bananas marked A, B, and C. There’s a tendency to audiences’ bad performances, however. They tend to assume that … Continue reading Factfulness | Book Review
Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: Chris Colvin talks about the importance of empathy in building bridges of ministry to people. Christina Quick notes a new Barna report about the influence of non-Christian worldviews on Christians. Please make sure to follow and like InfluenceInfluence … Continue reading Wednesday Influence Online Articles
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