Month: August 2013

Crossing Cultures: Who are we becoming?

Living and working interculturally can take its toll on our emotions. There are so many things that are different in a new culture. Simply walking into a store requires emotional energy. Stores in our host countries don’t operate the same like stores in our passport countries. The stores don’t have the commodities we are used…

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1 Corinthians 4:1-21 – Leadership under the Crucified Christ

When we work overseas we become members of international and interdenominational communities. Since we come from different countries and from different religious backgrounds, even though we are all disciples of the Lord Jesus, we find that we disagree about so many things. How are we to deal with all of our disagreements? Disagreements in believing…

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1 Corinthians 3:5-23 – A New Vision of God's Temple

From 1:10 till 3:4 Paul has been addressing the problem of divisions within the Corinthian community. These divisions were caused in part by leaders, teachers, or speakers who were trying to gain status and wider respect for themselves by developing unique teachings that had an appearance of wisdom. From how Paul tied this wisdom to…

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1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4 – Mature Spirituality

This is the fifth post in the series on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. The overarching question we are asking in this series is: What does this letter teach us about being a community of faith in diverse cultural contexts? And the passage for this post is 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4. Paul’s instructions are relevant…

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