Tentmakers Speak

by Don Hamilton

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830713212
• ISBN13: 9780830713219
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Regal Books
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The only source of field-tested commentary about tentmaking!

I did not give this book 5 stars because it is a literary masterpiece. By design it is something different, but it is nonetheless a rare find indeed! Nothing else quite like it exists, at least not done with the level of detail and care given by Hamilton to the underlying survey processes. This book reports and summarizes the experiences, opinions, lessons learned and attitudes formed by over 400 individuals. Each one of these people has lived in a different culture with the intent of getting to know people from that culture. This happens most naturally within the normal living of daily life in the marketplace, schools and hospitals - wherever the skills and experiences of these professionals presented natural opportunities for them to be of service to members of the host culture. As they rubbed shoulders with the people with whom they worked each day, they sought to bear testimony to their Christian faith, to communicate the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Are you pondering the possibility of living in a different culture as a natural witness by word and daily life? Do you wonder how you could share your faith authentically in a foreign culture where you are the outsider? Then read and benefit from those who have gone before you! This book is a goldmine of primary data on the psychological, theological, logistical and idiosyncratic realities of trying to authentically communicate the gospel cross-culturally as a layperson. If you are into that, you should buy this book. You will be glad that you did!