How can a Christian brought up in the metropolis of Sao Paulo speak the Gospel clearly to a Buddhist raised in the mountains of Tibet? Every missionary confronts the difficulty of cross-cultural communication.
But missionaries from the Third World, Bruce Nicholls says, must understand four cultures--"the Bible\'s, the Western missionaries\' who first brought the gospel, their own, and the people\'s to whom they take the gospel." Recognizing this, Nicholls proposes that the Gospel be contextualiz.
How can a Christian brought up in the metropolis of Sao Paulo speak the Gospel clearly to a Buddhist raised in the mountains of Tibet? Every missionary confronts the difficulty of cross-cultural communication