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We Are Not the Hero: A Missionary’s Guide to Sharing Christ, Not a Culture of Dependency Kindle Edition

by Jean Johnson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
“This is no ivory tower book of pontification and pronouncement; this is a field manual smeared with mud from front-line trenches. Get it. Read it. Use it. And see your people, neighborhood, region, even your world, transformed.” -Brian Hogan, assistant director, Youth With A Mission's Church Planting Coaches; author of There's a Sheep in my Bathtub: Birth of a Mongolian Church Planting Movement.

While globalization gives North American Christians unprecedented opportunities to influence the world, we need to take care not to slip into a type of postmodern colonialism in which we make ourselves the experts or the 'hero come to save the day.' Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all nations, not to spread Western cultural Christianity or solve the world with American dollars.

In We Are Not the Hero, the author invites you on a learning journey—through Cambodia and other parts of the world—to discover ways to contribute to self-sustaining and reproducing church movements that are organic to the culture.

If you are a student, missionary, church planter, missions-oriented church, or Great Commission-minded disciple you will find this book both inspirational and valuable to your experience.

“New Testament guidelines for multiplying churches leap out with startling clarity from sharp, action-packed examples that need no abstract explanation. Had I read this before going to the field, I’d have avoided serious and painful cultural errors.” - Dr. George Patterson, originator of Train and Multiply and author of Church Planting Multiplication Guide.

Jean Johnson speaks from real-life, hard-earned experience. She has seen firsthand the unintended consequences of ministry meant to help the poor that actually deepens their poverty. Her book provides important insights for those who desire to serve effectively, engaging both their hearts and their minds. -Dr. Robert Lupton, president of FCS Urban Ministries; Best-selling author of Toxic Charity.

“A treasure of interesting personal incidents as well as the gleanings from other like-minded experts in the field of missions. I enthusiastically endorse (Jean’s) book as a convincing incentive to review our mission vision and to modify our mission efforts!” -Steve Saint, missionary to the (Ecuadorian) Waodani tribe, author of End of the Spear and Walking His Trail, narrator of Beyond the Gates of Splendor.
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    October 15, 2012
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Jean Johnson served as a missionary with the Assemblies of God for sixteen years in Cambodia. Presently, she is an international teacher, trainer, and coach with World Mission Associates in Lancaster, PA. Jean holds a BA in cross-cultural communications from North Central University, Minneapolis, MN, where she worked as a missionary-in-residence, developing curriculum and teaching classes on church planting, global perspectives, missiology, and language acquisition.

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