Alan Tung

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Sometimes in X-ing cultures our kind gestures get rebuffed, it's helpful to remember: actions do not exist in an ahistorical vacuum.

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.@timcasteel @PaulWorcester Privacy is a higher value than vulnerability and transparency. #gospelissues

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@timcasteel @PaulWorcester Ex. USA value of privacy affects our understanding of sin. We think we can hide it. "Don't invade my privacy!"

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.@timcasteel @PaulWorcester What aspects have been corrupted by sin? Engage on these areas.

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.@timcasteel @PaulWorcester Also, what aspects of each culture reflect God's glory and need to be celebrated?

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.@timcasteel @PaulWorcester privacy, etc.) Inform and shape our understanding of God, the gospel, and our leadership? Because they do.

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.@timcasteel @PaulWorcester each of us has a culture, integrate that into content. How do American values (freedom, equality, work ethic,

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.@PaulWorcester I think of Gilbert Kingsley's team. But I think we are all still learning coaching cross culturally as we go. #cruchat

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A4: chapters 7-10 of Tim Keller's Center Church are one of the best (short) treatments on Biblical perspective of culture. #cruchat

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.@Cru_OnCampus I'm trying to learn how to distance coach well. #cruchat #weakness

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.@PaulWorcester Def. possible, need to decode well the needs of the students. Diverse SG can, but may not meet worship/growth needs #cruchat

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.@Cru_OnCampus A3: Don't let multiethnic and ethnic specific ministry become a competition. Not either/or, but both/and. #cruchat

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.@timcasteel Vision and relationships are great motivators and catalysts. #cruchat #efmconferences

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A2: Phil 2:5-8 Jesus became an outsider so we could become insiders with God. Will we be outsiders so others can be insiders too? #cruchat

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.@PaulWorcester also, I've found a good starting point can be to normalize the conversation about race and culture. #cruchat

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.@PaulWorcester I think also sometimes it isn't adding something new it's taking what we're doing and seeing through a diff. lens. #cruchat

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.@darintravis .@Cru_OnCampus I feel this as a Chinese American, my natural tendency is to try and pull people into my experience. #cruchat

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.@TeamMccraney .@Cru_OnCampus Media definitely has added complexity and confusion to the process. #cruchat

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I get trapped in a tourist mentality. Crossing cultures from the sidelines as an observer or pundit. #cruchat

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A1: differing values related to things like time, authority, etc, take me out of my comfort zone. #cruchat