pt. 1. Context, text and pre-texts
Context: the world of religion today
Text: what the Bible says
Pre-texts: theology and personality
pt. 2. Practices: Beyond competition and cooperation
Universality: reaching out to all, including Christians
Fellowship: Belonging precedes believing
Localization: focusing on questions and concerns of the local community
Commitment: holding ideas with conviction; acting decisively on those ideas; not letting those ideas be divisive
Freedom: honoring the principle of religious choice
Effectiveness: allowing the context to determine the form of witness
Consistency: striving for consistency between methods and goals
Variety: communicating the Gospel in many forms
Respect: not disparaging others in order to champion your own; not disparaging your own in order to respect others
Charity: loving those to whom we witness
Missional ecumenicity: practicing mission as the joint project of the church
Jesus, mission innovator: Jesus's model of giftive mission
pt. 3. Method: how do we do it
The spiral of knowledge acquisition: learning about new cultures and new religions
Experiencing: the influence of our personal histories
Bracketing: putting convictions on hold
Encountering: learning from a new culture and religion
Evaluating: appraising the new culture and religion from a Christian viewpoint
Integrating : reshaping our own views and mission practices
Appendix. Biblical interreligious encounters.
