ABSTRACT
Christianity is one of the world's major religions, with adherents in every continent. Christianity's core teaching is that Jesus Christ came into the world to restore humanity's broken relationship with God. Intercultural communication (ICC) has been part of Christian tradition from its beginnings in Jerusalem. A. S. Moreau et al., working from an evangelical Protestant position, integrated ICC and theology/missiology by tracing the history of Christian approaches to the contemporary field of ICC back to the 1950s and identified issues facing Christian ICC. Guests must listen carefully so as to avoid imposing their own agendas on hosts and develop intercultural sensitivity to avoid offending their hosts and creating negative impressions of Christianity among non-Christians in the host country. Differences in communication patterns across cultural and religious traditions, such as expectations for the amount and nature of self-disclosure and appropriate communicative behavior in public contexts require openness to learning, a key ethical requirement in this historical moment.
