Unfamiliar Paths: The Challenge of Recognizing the Work of Christ in Strange Clothing : a Case Study from FranceWilliam Carey Library, 1997 - 172 pages This book explains why some missionaries are rejecting the models and methodologies most widely accepted by North American evangelical missionaries working in France. The author demonstrates that the witness by Protestant missionaries in Western Europe is often ineffective because of their paradigms and ministry methods. |
Contents
Familiar But Puzzling | 26 |
Learning from Our History | 42 |
Friend Foe Ally or Servant? | 53 |
Let This Mind Be in You | 70 |
An Alternative Approach to Missions in PostChristendom Lands | 82 |
And When We Dont Agree | 99 |
Taking Dancing Lessons from the Trinity | 117 |
Appendix A Ten Major Tendencies of French Society | 135 |
Appendix B The French and Catholicism | 141 |
References | 159 |
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