SMC3-3: Missional Context:
Culture, Diversity, Worldview
Recognizing Your Community Differences
This workshop provides a backdrop for understanding diverse people groups, cultures, and worldview orientations present in today's society. The need for strategic missionary activity to these groups of people that ignite people movements to seek Christ as Lord and Savior will be discussed. This workshop will address key Biblical issues in facilitating people movements, embracing cultural diversity, understanding true Biblical conversion for worldview transformation.
Workshop Objectives
What you will learn in this workshop
1. That your community is culturally diverse ethnically, socially, and has multiple life ways.
2. That your local community is culturally diverse spiritually with many socio-religious groups.
3. Gain an understanding of people groups in North American, and people movements.
4. Evaluate some barriers and bridges in crossing cultural divides.
5. Discover the transformational nature of true Biblical Conversion
Workshop Outline
1. Cultural Awareness Introduction
2. Cultural Group Types
3. Lifeworlds, and Self
4. Biblical Diversity in North America
5. Social Resources, Cultural Bridges and Barriers
6. Understanding Lifeview and Postmodern Worldview
7. Transformation of Lifeview
8. Gospel Presentation Challenge