Thesis Statement On Intercultural Communication

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Thesis Statement 3

Definitions 4

Worldviews 4-5 Intercultural Communication 4

Biblical Basis 9

Historical Implications 9

Missiological Strategy and Methodology 7-8

Conclusion 9-10

Bibliography 11

Thesis Statement Due to the global geographical changes in the world this paper proposes how understanding worldviews plays an important role in effective intercultural communication in making disciples for Christ.

Introduction

There are so many global changes going on in the world today. With these changes people are crossing from one country to another. This means that different cultural background are trying to communicate with each other. That is why there is a need for one to

“Hiebert’s perspective was that worldview is essentially a mental schema through which people look at the world and by means of which they make sense of it. He posted that worldview is “the most fundamental and encompassing view of reality shared by a people in a common culture”.

Intercultural Communication “Intercultural communication is defined as the symbolic exchange process whereby individuals from two (or more) different cultural communities attempt to negotiate shared meanings in an interactive situation within an embedded societal system”.

Biblical Basis “Those of us who love the Scriptures should be the first to notice the tools of intercultural communication at work. The fact that we have a Bible that we can read and understand proves that this process has occurred in our past since the essence of intercultural communication is putting a message in terms that someone in another culture can understand. We speak freely about the incarnation of Christ as an essential for our redemption but often overlook the fact that His written word also came to us in a system that we could

Only then, will we avoid the pitfalls of ethnocentrism and the monocultural methodologies of the ugly American. We must be sensitive to cultural differences for receiving and processing information”.

Conclusion

“If we do not accept as good, God’s shaping of our person and life in our own culture, we will never be able to accept his work in the lives of others who are culturally different from us”.

“Intercultural communication is just one tool from the multifaceted field of intercultural studies. With the use of these tools from the cultural anthropology toolbox, Christian communicators discover more effective ways to share the gospel.

“Studying the various cultures of the world to know how best to communicate the gospel is wise stewardship. Night is coming when no man can work and there remains very much land to possess. Preaching to people in a language that they do not understand, or using any other culturally inappropriate method, would obviously be an ineffective strategy. As those who have been entrusted with the gospel once for all delivered to the saints, without which no one can be saved, we should use every resource available to us for effective sharing of this saving