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TGC Podcast

Building Cross-Cultural Competence Through Holistic Discipleship

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TGC Podcast

Religion, Tgc, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, The Gospel Coalition, Philosophy, 608017, Gospel Coalition, Christianity

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

At TGCW24, Vanessa Hawkins teaches how developing cross-cultural competence fosters respectful communication and spiritual growth across cultural and ideological differences.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.3

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

0:16.6

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?

0:25.7

Or what does any of that mean?

0:27.6

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

0:29.9

I know, I know.

0:31.1

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

0:37.7

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

0:43.3

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

0:49.3

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

0:57.9

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

1:07.1

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

1:12.5

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

1:18.7

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

1:26.1

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

1:30.1

As one of my pastors likes to say,

1:32.4

discipleship involves all of life.

1:34.4

It's the whole of life.

1:41.0

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

1:45.2

And I like to describe discipleship this way.

1:48.5

This is the Vanessa Hawkins version, all right?

1:51.4

I think of discipleship like this.

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