For the past year or two, we have been kicking around a really neat metaphor offered by one of our Partners' veteran staff, Alex Araujo called the Sailboat--Powerboat illustration. It was originally offered as a creative way to think about the different worldviews involved in working cross-culturally between the Global North (West) and Global South (non-West). You can read Alex's paper here: To Catch The Wind. There also is a whole blogsite Alex and others have set up called Sailing Friends.
In my own thinking about this metaphor, however, I've seen that it can be taken in both a cultural and a spiritual context. With that in mind, I've written a short paper today (also a blog post) that presents these contexts on a two dimensional graph. Let me know what you think--I'd love to hear some feedback.
What I'm excited about is that by thinking of both the spiritual and cultural dimensions in this way, we can actually begin to think about how to more effectively position the Resource Rich from the West with the Opportunity Rich from the non-Western part of the world for even greater ministry impact for God's Kingdom!
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