The Burden of Baggage (eBook)

First-Generation Issues in Coming to Christ

Roy Oksnevad (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
210 Seiten
William Carey Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-87808-084-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Overcoming Cultural Baggage One Generation at a Time.This uncommon resource targets a little discussed, but highly prevalent challenge that first-generation churches face. Specifically, The Burden of Baggage explores how cultural upbringing can be both a strength and a weakness as it impacts expressions of church life as seen in the personal, interpersonal, family, leadership styles, and spiritual walk.Every person coming to Christ has baggage, but a first-generation believer, especially one coming from a background with little or no connection to Christianity, has an uncommon amount of cultural baggage that they bring with them. This book tackles common issues and sees specific examples played out in the Iranian church as a prime example of these challenges. While the book focuses on Muslim-background believers from Iran, it has transferable insight for Other-background believers from any oppressive regime and therefore is highly encouraging in the universality of the struggle that new believers face as they draw near to Christ.Readers will walk away knowing they are not alone in their struggles as they deal with gut-wrenching issues that often arent able to be solved in one generation, and yet gain hope from the redemptive stories within.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2019
• Verlagsort: Littleton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Schlagworte: muslim background believer, mulim, islam, iran, honor shame, discipleship, church planting, church growth, asia, muslim diaspora • muslim-background believers, iranian christian diaspora, church conflicts, discipleship challenges, mbb community struggles, post-conversion experiences, christianity and islam, evangelical missions to muslims, islamic cultural impact, refugee christian communities, religious conversion issues, cross-cultural ministry, ex-muslim christian fellowship, iranian church growth, missionary strategies for iranians, converting muslims to christianity, evangelism in islamic countries, cultural baggage in conversion,
• ISBN-10: 0-87808-084-8 / 0878080848
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87808-084-7 / 9780878080847