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God’s vision for his people is not for the elimination of ethnicity to form a colorblind uniformity of sanctified blandness. Instead God sees the creation of a community of different cultures united b... -
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I like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful. -
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These people always find God in the sunsets. And in walks on the beach. Sometimes I think these people never leave the beach or the mountains, what with all the communing with God they do on hilltops,... -
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. -
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Everybody believes that their reality is the real real reality. -
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -
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The stranger sees only what he knows. -
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Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side. -
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Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human. -
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Many missionaries may be like me: well intentioned, dedicated and wanting to serve, but also naive and in some denial about what it means to serve in another culture . The reality is that many of us ... -
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God’s grace is present in all people and cultures. As we submit ourselves to learning from other cultures, we catch glimpses of God’s grace that would be unavailable in our own culture. -
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One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you. -
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Beneath the clearly perceived, highly explicit surface culture, there lies a whole other world. -
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Our natural tendency is to watch the world from behind the windows of [our] cultural home and to act as if people from other countries, ethnicities, or categories have something special about them, . ... -
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Cross Cultural leadership is a school from which you never graduate. -
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We can love what we are, without hating what- and who we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings. -
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -
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The most important step in entering a new culture is to build trust. Only when people trust us will they listen to what we have to say. -
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Ethnocentrism is the technical name for the view in which one’s own group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it. -
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you ... -
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[Speaking of the early church] A cosmopolitan spirit grew, particularly in the cities, that transcended national barriers. Old tribal distinctions and identities were breaking down, leaving people rip... -
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It was the reception of the Holy Spirit that first offered the church hope of a social and spiritual community composed of people from “every tribe and nation” and unified by the centrality of Christ. -
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Nearly every racial minority in the US understands Euro-white culture pretty well, but we whites are far more ignorant of how the cultures of others operate. -
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. -
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment. -
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. -
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -
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The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you... -
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course i...
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