Each of us has different talents. Some have a gift for interaction with people. Others have a gift for achieving objective goals. All of us who aspire to Christian ministry and service must seek to increase our concern for and interaction with others, or, in Paul’s words, we must seek to share our lives. We need to develop a habit evaluating our priorities, and we need to recognize that the tasks we think are so critical are not more important than the people God has entrusted to us.
Lingenfelter. Ministering Cross-Culturally, 2003. p. 85.
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I’m working my way through this small book for Dr. May’s Contextualization class. It’s good. It exposes some underlying tensions I am feeling as I work with Latinos.
In the book Lingenfelter basically walks the reader through the interpersonal blunders he made as he lived and ministered to the Yapese.