Reaching the World Next Door: How to Spend the Gospel in the Midst of Many Cultures - Softcover

Hopler, Thom; Hopler, Marcia

9780830816613: Reaching the World Next Door: How to Spend the Gospel in the Midst of Many Cultures

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830816615 ISBN 13: 9780830816613

Publisher: Intervarsity Pr, 1994

We live in the midst of many ethnic & cultural groups.

Neighbors and nearby neighborhoods are as likely to be Korean or Polish or Indian or Hispanic or Black as they are to be white. In addition, our society is broken into many other types of groups. There are professions, extended families, volunteer associations, age groups-each with its own set of values, behavior patterns and communication networks.

For those who want to spread the good news of Jesus Christ, this means we will need to adopt new strategies that are very different from the ones we used in a homogeneous, middle-class society.

Thom and Marcia Hopler first look to the wide variety of models potrayed in the Bible for reaching across cultures. Then they examine how we can apply these principles in our highly technological, urbanized and diversified society.

Here is a book with hope and a vision for the future.

Thom (M.A., Fuller) and Marcia (M.A., Westminster) Hopler spent ten years in Kenya and five years in Newark, New Jersey, with the Africa Inland Mission. Prior to his death in 1978, Thom was a specialist in urban ministries for two years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Marcia, who expanded and updated this book (previously published under the title A World of Difference), currently works with InterVarsity as a crosscultural specialist living in Philadelphia.

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