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Kwast: A Supra-Cultural Analysis

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Even so, with all of this background work to be done and learned when entering a different culture missionaries need to hold on to the call that God placed on their lives. Anyone can go to a place and live there, but only through Christ can someone truly understand a different community and somehow transform a community into one that loves Christ. Kwast puts it like this “it is true that anyone can grow to appreciate various different cultures, and even communicate effectively in more than one, one can never rise above his own, or other cultures, to gain a truly supra-cultural perspective” (Kwast 397). No matter where missionaries go or how close missionaries get to the people they are ministering to they will never become 100 percent insiders

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