Top 5 Cross-Cultural Communication Resources
Communicating Jesus’ Way by Charles H. Kraft
This book guides us in our attempt to understand how God seeks to communicate the Gospel to those who have not yet received it. Kraft shows that God desires His people to deliver His message through human life, not merely formulaic explanations or printed word.
Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot and Cold Climate Cultures by Sarah Lanier
“The ‘Foreign’ in the title of this most-helpful book once meant people and cultures ‘overseas.’ Today that has all changed. Lanier has captured the keys to understanding our own and others’ ways of doing and saying things…you follow the principles in this book, the boundaries of your world view will expand…This is a must read in today’s world where ‘cross-cultural’ may simply mean ‘across the street.’” — Peter Jordan, author of Re-Entry.
Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multi-Cultural World by Bernard T. Adeney
Written by a theologian and veteran cross-cultural worker, this book is one of the first to address in-depth what may be the stickiest cross-cultural communication problem—differing approaches to morality. Comprehensively, Adeney considers ethics across cultures, addresses the ethical import of other religions and gender relations, and explores how the Bible and culture interact to produce ethical stances. (Amazon.com review by “Ingram”)
Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally by David J. Hesselgrave
As an unparalleled introduction to cross-cultural communication, this thoroughly indexed book examines world views, cognitive processes, linguistic forms, behavioral patterns, social structures, communication media, and motivational sources. (Book description from Amazon.com.)
The Insider by Jim Petersen and Mike Shamy
Do you feel burned out or disillusioned because of your cross-cultural experiences? Are you desperately searching for where you fit into God’s kingdom purposes? If the answer is yes, now is the time to read The Insider. By showing you how to live as a citizen of God’s Kingdom inside your everyday relational networks—home, work, school, and community—it will challenge your old ways of thinking and help you cooperate with God in what He is doing today.