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Enabling professionals to be mature, faithful, fulfilled followers of Christ and effective in their lives and jobs is important to us in Interserve. We have found that compartmentalizing our lives and faith hinder us from becoming mature followers of Christ. Moving toward maturity in our walk with God requires a good foundation. The foundation impacts…
When I heard the first whistle, I got tense. It just kept coming closer and closer. Then a few blocks away the rocket landed and exploded. Since this was a well-populated suburb I thought it hit a house. I felt sorry for those who were inside. Then, the second whistle started. A few years earlier…
Ethnocentrism is believing in the superiority of one’s ethnic group. Even though it sounds like ethnocentrism is bad, ethnocentrism has positive and negative qualities. For a minority group in oppressive conditions, ethnocentrism enables the group to create and sustain an identity over extended periods of time. The downside of ethnocentrism is that it causes a people…
Why is wholistic ministry a fundamental aspect of Interserve’s ethos? This quote from Change Across Cultures by Bruce Bradshaw highlights why serving wholistically is so important: The great [overseas] outreach of the 19th and 20th centuries planted churches around the world. It was less successful, however, in transforming the societies in which people lived. Poverty,…
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