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Culture affects how we make disciples. We often unconsciously bring our own cultural assumptions into ministry and mission, not realizing that how we think and operate is not necessarily the best or only way to do things. In today's global environment, disciplemaking requires the cultural humility and flexibility to adapt between different cultural approaches. Charles Davis, former director of TEAM, provides a framework for missional disciplemaking across diverse cultural contexts. He shows how we can recalibrate our ministry efforts, like adjusting sound levels on a mixer board, to accommodate different cultural assumptions. With on-the-ground stories from a lifetime of mission experience, Davis navigates such tensions as knowledge and behavior, individualism and collectivism, and truth and works to help Christian workers minister more effectively. Ministry teams, church planters, pastors and missionaries working interculturally at home or overseas can be part of God's movement of making disciples. Discover how the body of Christ grows in the unity and diversity of the global church.
- Sales Rank: #637589 in Books
- Brand: InterVarsity Press
- Published on: 2015-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 236 pages
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"In this book, longtime mission leader Charles Davis applies a distinctively missionary analysis to the worn-out ecclesiologies of our time. But it's not all critique and analysis: built on narrative and experience, he lovingly provides the church with a very useful diagnostic tool that gives us viable pathways toward renewal of church life and mission. I am grateful for this book." (Alan Hirsch, founding director of Forge Missional Training Network and author of The Forgotten Ways)
"Discipleship is one of those terms used a lot among Christians but often with little understanding. Ask twenty believers to define it and you'll get twenty different answers. Dr. Charles Davis does the body of Christ a favor by clearly laying out universal principles for growing as disciples and in turn making true disciples. God is calling his body to return to true discipleship and disciple-making, not according to what culture dictates, but what the Bible reveals about moving toward spiritual maturity. Making Disciples Across Cultures is a helpful and provoking resource for every prospective and current message bearer. Overcoming many false assumptions about discipleship, the church and our calling in reaching others, Davis calls us back to Jesus himself and to each other. The book distinctly reminds us of the crucial component of the communal body of Christ in becoming and making true disciples. I highly commend this encouraging book to you." (Ryan Shaw, international lead facilitator, Student Volunteer Movement 2, author, Spiritual Equipping for Mission)
"Too many books are being written to promote the latest fad or method. This is not one of them. In Making Disciples Across Cultures, Charlie Davis makes a practical and compelling case for how to live and lead in the center of biblical tension. This book was written out of the wellspring of experience and is filled with real-life stories that bring the principles to life. I highly commend it to you." (Steve Moore, president, Missio Nexus)
"Drawing on his experience as a sojourner in Pakistan and Venezuela as well as his time with TEAM, Charlie Davis shares ten principles that will help us rebalance our understanding and praxis of being vibrant disciple-making communities with God-sized kingdom agendas. You have asked the questions, felt the frustrations and wondered why the Christian enterprise―as so many of us know it―is not working well. Charlie provides transcultural and universally applicable insights to help recalibrate authentic disciple making in your context. Don’t be surprised if you and your discipleship cohort are inadvertently re-energized as you get a fresh glimpse of the Holy Spirit at work in and through ordinary people like you and me. An essential read for every individual or group committed to genuine disciple making both in the West and around the globe." (Matthew Philip, director of global outreach, Trinity Church, Lansing, MI)
"This refreshing new look at the central mandate of missions―making disciples of the nations―masterfully weaves biblical teaching with stories and anecdotes from a veteran mission leader who is both well traveled and well informed. Over his long career in missions, Charlie has seen it all, and his creative 'slider switches' analogy helps the reader put disciplemaking in balanced perspective." (Marvin Newell, senior vice president, Missio Nexus)
"I know of no one more capable of writing a book on cross-cultural discipleship than Charles Davis. His strong desire for church renewal and his vast global experience uniquely qualify him to write this book. One wonders what the world would look like if a billion people who call themselves Christian would profoundly grow as disciples of Jesus. Not only does Davis share his passion and experience, but he also sets forth practical multicultural principles of discipleship. Leaders in the global church, including the church in the United States, need to read this book." (Jim Plueddemann, former international director of SIM, professor of missions, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
"Charles Davis has identified the solution to passive church members, nominal Christians and dying churches. It is a refocus on what our Lord said was priority―making disciples. This is not information from class instruction or mental indoctrination but a process of life transformation through modeling and mentoring that touches practical areas of life and impacts cultures. From a lifetime of overseas service and global leadership, Davis is well-equipped to write Making Disciples Across Cultures. The strong biblical foundation and prolific anecdotes strengthen the book's relevancy for Western churches as well as the mission field." (Jerry Rankin, president emeritus, International Mission Board, SBC)
"If one has a heart for serving God and a passion for His mission, then Making Disciples Across Cultures is certainly a recommended read. I would not hesitate to encourage pastors, theologians, missiologists, and similar scholars to include this book in their respective libraries." (Rev. Wayne A. Grätz, Haddington House Journal, 2016)
About the Author
Charles A. Davis (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the former executive international director of TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission). He has over four decades of crosscultural experience in global disciplemaking and missional church planting. He was previously president of the Evangelical Seminary of Caracas, and he is a member of the Global Leadership Council of the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.
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Much Needed Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Mathew Sims
Davis sets the goal high:
“What I needed, and what is needed today, is a set of universal disciple-making principles by which to evaluate the cultural and theological assumptions that in turn precipitate the methods and patterns of behavior common in churches and among church leaders” (22)
To do this he has crafted ten principles with sliding cultural values. They are:
Disciples Let God Lead from the Invisible World (Visible vs Invisible)
Disciples Hear and Obey (Knowledge vs Behavior)
Disciples Develop Relational Interdependence (Individualism vs Collectivism)
Disciples Do What Love Requires (Gospel-Truth vs Works-Justice)
Disciples Make Disciples (One-Way Delivery vs Group Interaction)
Leaders Equip Disciples for Ministry (Equippers vs Ministers)
Disciples Live an Undivided Life (Public vs Private)
Disciples Engage in Personal and Public Transformation (Personal vs Cultural)
Disciples Keep the End in Mind (Church vs Kingdom)
Disciples Organize Flexibly and Purposefully (Organizational vs Relational)
These ten principles make up the structure of Making Disciples Across Cultures. Davis has provided the church an invaluable resource birthed out of his own experience with cross-cultural disciple making. He shares his successes and failures and invites us to understand disciple making through different cultural lenses. With all that in mind, Davis succeeds in many ways.
He starts exploring discipleship principles from a solid foundation—some core definitions for understanding the disciple-making mission:
“A disciple is one who moves closer to Jesus as a learner, follower and lover, together with other disciples” (32).
“From the first conversation about Jesus with an unbeliever to the final breath, our task is to make disciples—before salvation, after salvation, and throughout life” (36).
“Following Jesus also has a unique dimension. Jesus himself only did and said what the Father told him to say or do, and he expects his followers to do the same” (39).
One minor note at this point, Davis seems more comfortable with the charismatic gifts than I would be. However, I am aware enough to know that could be partly my own cultural assumptions. I have connections with missionaries in the Middle East, for instance, who tell me that many converts from Islam do so after having a vision of Jesus. I do appreciate how Davis always ties in the use of the charisma to the authority of Scripture (that ties in with the third principle above).
“When we carefully submit what we believe we have heard from God to other trusted members of the body of Christ, judging by the Spirit within us and by Scripture, they can help us discern whether what we have heard is indeed from God or if it is simply a product of our own imagination or, worse, if we have been deceived by the enemy” (49 also see 62 “the truth of God’s word”).
I also appreciated the community focus through out Making Disciples Across Cultures (29, 41 “With few exceptions I found the word [disciple] overwhelmingly used in the plural”; 49, 81, 104, 177, 191, 196, 216).
“God has the capacity to build one body out of millions of diverse individuals. Under his headship, that body has the capacity to accomplish infinitely more than any individual, even though he knows each individual personally, having given each one the gifts that he knows will best contribute to the whole” (81).
Chapter 11 offers a stand out section on the difference between organizational structure and organic growth of the body. The discussion gives fresh eyes to some issues we face in America. We have these old organizational structures (i.e., mainline denominations) but the body has essentially malnutritioned. These decaying organizations can go on for years and decades, but the life is in the body of Christ. I want to offer a pushback for his discussion on gathering informally in homes and small groups.
Discussing this one day with others on this disciple-making journey, one said, “It seems as if these cells and households are the essentials. If you can gather in large groups, such as missional communities and crowd gatherings, it’s a bonus. But if all you have are the latter, you’re probably in trouble. (196)
I would submit that it’s not an either/or. However, the gathering together as one assembly for worship is a Scripture mandate. The writer of Hebrews commands,
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
I can’t dig into all the background of this passage, but Hebrews deals primarily in terms of the covenant people (i.e., falling away, cultic description, etc). It would be inconceivable in that context for home fellowship to be more important than the gathered cultic worship of the covenant community. I would argue and this passage also gets at this via a different road. As we are called by God to the gathered worship of the body, we are sent out to “spur one another on toward love and good deeds . . . [and encourage] one another.” Therefore, if you miss the gathered, you will have a malnourished scattered fellowship/mission.
Making Disciples Across Cultures ends on a high note and this last selection is worth quoting in its entirety:
During the twentieth century missionaries came to believe that if we gathered homogenous people together, the church would grow faster. Surely bigger churches were better than smaller ones. They reasoned pragmatically that people from one class or caste or ethnicity would not want to become Christian if doing so meant they had to join a church that consisted primarily of the other class, caste or ethnicity. Church growth became an end in itself, and the manifold wisdom of God took back seat.
The homogenous unit principle made some sense as a strategic entry point for evangelism, and in some places of the world, simple isolation or language differences might force one group to be homogenous. But when it becomes characteristic of the global body of Christ, the homogenous unit principle categorically contradicts Scripture. If Paul had believed in this principle, he would have had Jewish congregations and Gentile congregations, and the good news of the manifold wisdom of God would never have become apparent. John’s vision—of men and women from every tribe, language, people and nation gathered together as one kingdom and priests to serve our God—would be false (Rev 5:9-10). (211)
Man that strikes right to the heart of a major issue in the American church. We have turned discipleship into marketing schemes and to do so we’ve rejected the early New Testament example of diverse body of Christ. If you take nothing else away from this review, let that stick to your bones. I would encourage pastors and leaders in churches to slowly work through Making Disciples Across Cultures and have difficult and important conversations about disciple-making in our churches.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Book that Fills the Gap in Making Disciples Across Cultures
By Dr. Robert J. Vajko
Here is a book that will make a difference in the ministry of making disciple. How I wish that I had an understanding of these principles when began a ministry of church-planting. I would have more clearly emphasized making true disciples as the church was being planted. Planting churches without making disciples will never produce truly biblically healthy churches.
Davis has had years of experience in church-planting and mission leadership as former executive director of TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission). His depth of involvement enriches the ten principles of making disciples cross-culturally as developed in this book. His sharing is both honest and helpful as he explains what he would have done had he understood more clearly these values.
In the introduction the author describes candidly his own life as disciple and disciple maker. He gives a working definition of discipleship, “A disciple is one who moves closer to Jesus as a learner, follower and lover, together with other disciples” (32). He then describes ten principles using the metaphor of a sound mixer board explaining how to balance in any cultural context the process of seeing people becoming true followers of Christ (26).
When I taught cross-cultural ministry in Adelaide College of Ministries in Australia, I sought in vain for a book that described how to make disciples cross-culturally. How helpful it would have been to have this book. Even now I believe that thinking through these principles will make a difference in my own life in training true followers of Jesus.
I cannot recommend too highly both the content and the experience found in this book. Anyone launching into ministry (especially cross-cultural church planters) will find the help needed in this book. What a difference this would make to effective ministry to get the insights given here as well as avoiding some of the traps the author speaks about. Read it and learn from the experiences of others.
The only thing I might add to his working definition given above is that a “disciple is not only one who moves closer to Jesus as a learner, follower and lover, together with other disciples” (34) but that a true disciple also leads others to Christ who then wins others thus continuing the process. This is no doubt understood as a part of discipleship in Davis’s thinking but it is important to make it a definite part of being a disciple lest we forget the multiplication process spoken about by Jesus in what is called the “Great Commission.”
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good Read!
By JP
Quite well written. Helpful in understanding insidious cultural interpretations that influence all of our perceptions, often unknowingly. Helpful discussion of unseen, yet powerful, influences on those perceptions. Lots of suggested resources for additional exploration of topic.
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