num_pages: 224
description: What does evangelism look like at its best? Evangelism can hurt sometimes. Well-meaning Christians who welcome immigrants and refugees and share the gospel with them will often alienate the very people they are trying to serve through cultural misconceptions or insensitivity to their life experiences. In No Longer Strangers  diverse voices lay out a vision for a healthier evangelism that can honor the most vulnerablemany of whom have lived through trauma oppression persecution and the effects of colonialismwhile foregrounding the message of the gospel. With perspectives from immigrants and refugees and pastors and theologians (some of whom are immigrants themselves) this book offers guidance for every church missional institution and individual Christian in navigating the power dynamics embedded in differences of culture race and language. Every contributor wholeheartedly affirms the goodness and importance of evangelism as part of Christian discipleship while guiding the reader away from the kind of evangelism that hurts toward the kind of evangelism that heals.
language: English
title: No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities
publisher: Eerdmans