Incarnational Bonding Process in Relation to Effectiveness of Cross-cultural Adjustment Through Field-based Missionary Training Model for Korean Missionaries

Download or read book Incarnational Bonding Process in Relation to Effectiveness of Cross-cultural Adjustment Through Field-based Missionary Training Model for Korean Missionaries written by Jong-Pyo Im and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the relationship between the missionary's incarnational bonding process and effective field adjustment, how Korean monocultural tendencies impact this incarnational bonding process, and in light of this, to examine the need for a paradigm shift toward the development of field-based missionary training. The notion of the missionary's incarnational bonding process has been of great concern in my own personal life, as well as in the cross-cultural missionary world. This study uses the Brewsters' concept of bonding as a starting point and develops it further in order to enhance the effectiveness of cross-cultural adjustment and develop a field-based training model. This study consists of three parts. The first part investigates and develops the incarnational bonding theory from Biblical and missiological perspectives. The second part explores the effect of culture--the missionary's own and that of his receptors'--on cross-cultural adjustment. Based upon the discoveries in the second part, the third part develops a model of field-based training that is relevant for missionaries, particularly those from a Korean background of monocultural, monolingual and monoethnic homogeneity. I utilized mixed methodologies in my research design, taking a qualitative and quantitative approach to collect the necessary data in order to investigate three components: the missionary's effective incarnational bonding process and its relationship to cultural adjustment; how the missionary's own culture and that of his receptors affects the process; and, finally, what sort of innovative field-based training model would most effectively enhance the missionary's cross-cultural communication. The research produced three findings: incarnational bonding is a phenomenon that is necessary for and critical to cross-cultural missionary endeavors; the missionary's understanding of his own culture is even more significant and applicable to the incarnational bonding process in the context of a cross-cultural setting; and a field-based missionary training model must be developed further in order to enhance the carrying out of the Great Commission.