02518cam a2200289 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000160007302000220008902000250011103500200013604000730015605000230022908200170025210000300026924500880029925000120038726000480039930000290044750400660047650504710054252010800101365000390209365000660213265000300219840193603OCoLC20241126110700.0981015s1998    miua     b    001 0 eng    a   98047736  a0801021782 (pbk.)  a9780801021787 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)40193603  aDLCbengcDLCdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdCFTdBDXdCFTdOCLCFdXPQdCIRBC00aBV2063b.L436 199800a266221bLIN1 aLingenfelter, Sherwood G.10aTransforming culture :ba challenge for Christian mission /cSherwood Lingenfelter.  a2nd ed.  aGrand Rapids, Mich. :bBaker Books,cc1998.  a190 p. :bill. ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and indexes.0 aTransferring or transforming culture? -- A model for analysis of social order -- Property: the silent enemy of church growth -- Labor and productivity: divisive values in mission -- Generosity and exchange: the stone of stumbling in interpersonal relationships -- Authority and family: the foundation of social order -- Authority and community: the context of local churches -- Disputes, conflicts, and communication: to command or to serve? -- Transforming culture.8 a"Lingenfelter's book opens with the valuable point that Christians are pilgrims on earth, participants in the culture of Christ. Going beyond the differences between 'collectivistic' cultures and 'individualistic' cultures, he identifies five different social games (hierarchic, egalitarian, etc.) which determine cultural bias and are used in the rest of the book to help identify ideas such as property, privacy, family and authority, dispute resolution and communication, the concepts of borrowing and repaying, and of labor and patronage. He provides helpful grids and a quiz, all to help the reader to identify his or her own social game. This is all valuable for someone preparing to go into the mission field, as cultural bias is brought into mission along with other baggage. It is a book that should be read carefully and thoroughly, as it could be overwhelming for someone preparing to enter the mission field to recognize the responsibility to be sensitive to the cultural games of the people group while at the same time evangelizing to this group" -- Amazon.com. 0aMissionsxAnthropological aspects. 0aIntercultural communicationxReligious aspectsxChristianity. 0aChristianity and culture.