Challenge Of Diversity Book

The subtitle alone will challenge your thinking: "What we can learn from Christians around the world." Many of us will not travel beyond our own countries. And sadly, many of us will not experience the different cultural expressions of Christianity that exist in our own cities. Different cultures and expressions of Christianity can challenge us to pay attention to truths we overlook. They can inspire us to new ways of thinking. God is at work in the lives of all His people and so we have much to learn from Christians across the world. I highly recommend this book as an inspiring introduction to God's global story. It will serve as another step deeper into humility - we have much to learn and can learn much from all kinds of people - especially those beyond our borders. "If you want to see God as you have never seen Him before, a God who is as big as the whole world, this book is for you." "Russian Christians delight in the mystery of God, in the thought that we cannot know everything. We in the West, however, are usually quite the opposite: we expect to understand the mysteries and seek to rid Christianity and God of the unknown." p.29 "If Abraham were alive today, he would be considered an Iraqi because he comes from Haran, a place not far from modern-day Basra, near the Iraq-Kuwait border." p.43 "In the West we do not use the words 'perseverance,' 'endurance,' or 'persistence' often in our Christian vocabulary." p.46 "Central to Hispanic Christians' existence is the perspective that life is God's gift and that it is our duty to celebrate it with others." p.69 As Christians: "No matter how well we speak the local language, we will always have an accent that gives away our identity - the fact that we are from another place." p.135