Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

As we're talking about building cross-cultural competence through holistic discipleship, for those of you who are wondering, what does one thing have to do with the other?

Or what does any of that mean?

That's a very long title, isn't it?

I know, I know.

But let's first define our terms and get us all on the same page, singing from the same hymn,

knowing all those other things, right? All right, so what is cross-cultural competence?

And so when I talk to you about cross-cultural competence, what I'm really talking about

is the ability to speak with love and respect a cross-cultural difference. All right? The ability to speak with love and respect across cultural difference. All right? The ability to speak

across cultural difference, lovingly and respectfully. And some people will also refer to

CQ, cultural intelligence, and I tend to use those interchangeably. The only difference really

is trademarking and who owns what rights to what, right? So I use those interchangeably. So they're

all very similar concepts. So what then do we mean when we talk about holistic or deep

discipleship? As one of my pastors likes to or deep discipleship.

As one of my pastors likes to say,

discipleship involves all of life.

It's the whole of life.

And it means becoming and remaining a lifetime learner and follower of Jesus Christ.

And I like to describe discipleship this way.

This is the Vanessa Hawkins version, all right?

I think of discipleship like this.

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