(Branson/Martinez 191) This quote from Churches, Cultures and Leadership, by Branson and Martinez, really hits it on the head. The objective world, the subjective world and the social world all play an important part when it comes to effective intercultural communication. Again, this framework is essential when we approach the global church.
This also brings to mind the multiplicity of relationships created within a blended family. When my ex-husband remarried, his wife brought her two children, he brought our two children and then they had a daughter together. As the family therapist pointed out, this created approximately 167 different relational connections. Therefore, within that paradigm, a lot of tension, uncomfortableness and reframing of the family system had to be constructed. Consequently, this marriage also ended in divorce and much of it due to poor communication and unawareness of the aforementioned …show more content…
My point being, it is work and by no means easy. Yet, for a successful end result, we must be willing to do the work to process through the thickness, rather than try to fly above it. I’m not saying we don’t go into the balcony to assess, but it’s not a place we stay. Nothing grows on the mountaintop, only in the rich, deep valleys.
Most of Maxwell’s book is pragmatic in nature or at least in my mind, seems rather obvious in certain