Cultural Insights for Christian Leaders: New Directions for Organizations Serving God's Mission

by Douglas McConnell, Amos Yong (Series Editor), Douglas McConnell

Christianity Today Book Award Winner

This volume helps leaders and leaders-in-training become students of culture who can then contextualize what they learn for their own organizational settings. Douglas McConnell, a respected leader in the worlds of missiology and higher education, enables readers to understand intercultural dynamics so they can shape their organizational cultures and lead their organizations in a missional direction. This is the latest volume in an award-winning series emphasizing mission as partnership with Christians around the globe.

Genres: Leadership

224 pages, Paperback

Published July 17, 2018

Reviews

[Mary Lou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Douglas McConnell has had many roles in mission leadership. He is presently a Professor of Leadership and Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. His new book, Cultural Insights for Christian Leaders, brings together his years of experience in various cultural contexts globally, his wide network of colleagues of different cultures, and his keen insights into current research in cultural anthropology, social sciences, missiology, and leadership. In this textbook for Christian leaders and organizations each chapter combines how various secular disciplines relate to God’s mission, a case study from a global practitioner, a review at the end and a series of questions to help the leaders of mission organizations process the material in that chapter. McConnell believers today’s Christian missionary organizations must become fully intercultural: i.e., with leadership staff that represents the diversity of peoples around the world and the principles of cultural contextualization that make the work of that mission suitable for the people who are the beneficiaries of the mission outreach. Although there is a fair amount of redundancy in the book, it is extremely valuable for any leader who consciously seeks to make their organization relevant and redemptive in their mission context.
5 stars
M.L. Codman-Wilson, Ph.D, 3/1/2019

[Jeremy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe 1.5 stars. I couldn't get into the writing style and the content's organization was strange to me.