Description
From Back Cover
The lands where Muslims and Christians have encountered each other are littered with the ruins of fortresses. Each faith community built barriers to keep out the enemies of the other faith. Each sought to control from inside any access, by gates or bridges. The present studies look at the barriers erected by peoples considered resistant to the gospel, and the bridges God is using to carry the gospel to them. The first part reflects on such issues related to the barriers as, What do we mean by resistant? Why are some people groups resistant to the gospel? What is God’s role? Should missionaries focus on the least reached or the most receptive? What degree of contextualization is legitimate? Above all, how should we understand resistance and receptivity biblically and theologically? The next part analyzes representative case studies that exhibit many of the barriers, such as those involved in Judaism, Islam, the Japanese, and post-Christendom Europe. And parts three and four focus on finding and building bridges over the barriers, and preparing for the bridges of the future. Christians did overcome the barriers and cross the bridge into the Muslim Alhambra, yet the Catholic monarchs entering the palaces were greeted by the motto on the wall, “There is no conqueror but God.” These are words we would do well to remember as we seek to cross bridges to the resistant, not by force of arms, but by “love and prayers, and the pouring out of tears and blood.”
Publishing Info
Reaching the Resistant: Barriers and Bridges for Mission, edited by J. Dudley Woodberry. Evangelical Missiological Society Series Number 6. From the First Printing by William Carey Library with 1998 copyright. The ISBN is 0-87808-380-4. This paperback book measures about 8-3/8″ x 5-3/8″ and has 252 pages, ending with the Index.
Condition
Enlarge the photo above. In near new condition with just a bit of storage on corner tips. The spine has not been opened/creased. No names or other markings noted. Stored in and ships from clean, smoke-free Christian home.
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