Cross-Cultural Servanthood <subTitle>Serving the World in Christlike Humility</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Elmer, Duane</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1943-...)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">7:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>IVP Books</publisher> <dateIssued>2006</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>212tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>21 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? `Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us.` The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately, all too often and even though we don't mean it, our actions communicate superiority, paternalism, imperialism and arrogance.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Duane Elmer</note> <subject> <topic>Jesus Christ</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Service (Theology)</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Jesus Christ -- Servanthood</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">266.023</classification> <classification authority="ddc">D812-E48</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780830833788</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/4/14/1919.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/4/14/1919.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070618.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>