Introduction
It is important to note that the practices of intercultural communication and cultural intelligence provide significant insight and understanding to communicate an unchanging gospel message to people from diverse cultures and contexts. One should be aware that “Jesus’ authority in heaven and on earth is a global authority … a call to global mission.” In addition, intercultural communication is critical since “it is about acquiring the necessary knowledge and dynamic skills to manage such differences appropriately and effectively.” Thus, the insight of the gospel message needs to be experienced in most cultural backgrounds around the global community, where they have developed systems of cultural worship that mainly give superiority to a god or gods who are said to be supernatural.
Discussion
Cultures are referred to assumptions, customs, beliefs, languages, and knowledge between different passed on in different generations, whereas cultural intelligence is the ability to adapt to different cultures and backgrounds. To practice intercultural communication and cultural intelligence, one should have various characteristics to develop good communication between individuals of other diverse cultures.
The intercultural practices have led to global communication in most contexts of the spiritual backgrounds of most cultures. It is mainly because for one to be able to read, understand and interpret the gospel message, one should also understand the cultures, and the main reason is the spiritual or religious backgrounds of almost all cultures have similarities in some beliefs and norms. In other words, religious beliefs and practices increase good health and the welfare of individuals as religion or spirituality is well defined where factors such as individualism and materialism affect the appearance of the religion where it is not psychologically expressed. These practices are common among most people in diverse worlds working or even trying to explore cultures in different contexts.
Conclusion
Therefore, cultural identity is an individual’s self-perception, self-conception about a belief, a cultural instinct, or even cultural diversity. Cultural identity involves many emotions as identity is a big part of one’s significance and even intellectual communication in its diverse cultural beliefs. Cultural identity can be transformed from one person to another, even in the gospel message. Not only is the biggest feature in cultural identity today is the politics of a state and the economic stability of a country but also the language and history, and they are socially developed. Thus, intercultural communication practices play a major role in developing the gospel message all around the globe today.
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