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Language:
English
Audience:
Academics
Geographical focus:
Persian World, Diaspora
Date First Published:
2018
Resource Type:
Book
Topics / Themes:
Discipleship, Leadership
ISBN or similar
978-0878080823
Overview:
A book that is explicitly related to the critical issues that Iranian BMBs encounter after their conversion experience, including community struggles, pastoral and discipleship challenges, and interpersonal conflicts. This book is also translated into Persian under a different name.
Content:
Every person coming to Christ has baggage, but a first-generation believer, especially one coming from little or no connection to Christianity, has an uncommon amount of cultural baggage that they bring with them. This book tackles a variety of issues and sees specific examples play out in the Iranian church as a prime example of these challenges.
The Burden of Baggage explores how cultural upbringing is expressed in the personal, interpersonal, family, leadership, and spiritual nuances of church life-contributing to both strengths and weaknesses. Church teaching must shift the emphasis away from the self as perceived by the community in terms of honor and shame, instead encouraging people to give up their honor through humility, and refocus their attention on God and loving others.
Readers will walk away knowing they are not alone in their struggles as they deal with gut-wrenching issues that often aren’t solved in one generation.
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