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Overcoming Cultural Baggage One Generation at a Time. (NEW PARAGRAPH) Every person coming to Christ has baggage, but a first-generation believer, especially one coming from little or no connection to Christianity, has an uncommon amount of cultural baggage that they bring with them. This books tackles common issues and sees specific examples play out in the Iranian church as a prime example of these challenges. The Burden of Baggage explores how the cultural upbringing is expressed in the personal, interpersonal, family, leadership, and spiritual expressions of church life-contributing to both the strengths and weaknesses. Church teaching must shift the emphasis away from the self as perceived by the community in terms of honor and shame, by encouraging people to give up their honor through humility, and refocusing the attention on God and loving others. Readers will walk away knowing they are not alone in their struggles as they deal with gut-wrenching issues that often aren't able to be solved in one generation.

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The Burden of Baggage provides a realistic and detailed look into the inner joys and struggles of ex-Muslims now striving to live for Christ as a diaspora. Instead of glowing post-conversion stories, the book not only unveils their newfound happiness as believers and their fellowship with other Christians, but also the reality of pain and conflicts, community struggles over identity and belonging, and the pastoral and discipleship challenges of forming them into Christ followers. All who read this book will go away convinced of the priority of discipleship among Muslim converts to Christ-to pray, journey, and struggle with them more deeply and knowledgeably over the long haul. John Cheong, PhDmissiologist and MBB discipleship researcher in Asia

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Roy has been an urban pioneer church planter in the NYC area, cross-cultural missionary in Belgium, helped start the South Asian Friendship Center in Chicago, director of Muslim Ministries at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, founder, and director of COMMA (Coalition of Ministries to Muslims in North America) and Director of Muslim Ministry for All People of the Evangelical Free Church of America. He is an author, speaker, and educator. He is adjunct faculty for Pars Theological Centre.

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