Transformation Through the Different Other: A Rendezvous of Giving and Receiving

Description: Transformation Through the Different Other is the story of Faustin Ntamushoboras transformation through encounters with people of different races tribes worldviews and experiences and how God has used these experiences to transform his life into the image of Christ. The root cause of racial and tribal problems is not really the difference in color but the human heart. However differences in race tribe and worldview could widen the gap in peoples hearts and cause more separation and strife. But the same heart if transformed by the Great Other can shape and sharpen the heart of ones fellow human being. Ntamushobora acknowledges that community is very important for our transformation. Diversity in community when developed with a sense of unity can shape us into vessels that glorify the Lord by pouring into and receiving from those who are different from us. The book ends with practical ways transformation through the other can become a reality and an invitation to believers to prepare themselves for the time when every tongue every tribe and every race will stand together singing praises to the Lamb of God who was slain for the redemption of every person from every nation. Endorsements: From the horrors of his story as a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda Ntamushobora provides an African perspective on issues of injustice racism ethnic conflict and violations of human rights. . . . He leads the reader to think in fresh ways about what it means to love God and love our neighbors as ourselves. --Sherwood Lingenfelter Professor and Provost Emeritus Fuller Theological Seminary In this book Faustin shares much of his story and how God has used people very different from him to transform his life. God wants to do this for us too. As you read this book I am sure God will use it to open your eyes so you can see and experience the transformational impact others are having on you--for the glory of God. --W. Matthew Reed Jr. Pastor of Missional and Adult Ministries Calvary Church Faustin Ntamushobora pastor scholar and compelling storyteller eloquently describes ubuntu theology centered in restorative justice based upon forgiveness. Sharing heart-wrenching personal stories as a Rwandan genocide survivor as well as spiritual intellectual and cultural eurekas in the discovery of the different other the author unfolds the only salve for the problem of the human heart: the transformative work of Jesus Christ healer and hope of the nations. --June Hetzel Dean of Education Biola University Today discourses between Africa and the rest of the world particularly the West havent quite sobered up. Such encounters fueled by the problem of active exclusion and rubbishing of each others perspectives often raise their voices in blame-games and grandstanding. . . . Ntamushobora introduces ubuntu not only as the distinguishing principle that separates Africa from the rest of the world but he also presents it as the hermeneutic key to the question of race self-understanding of Africa and a basis for contemplation of transformation as something that happens through the different other. --James Kombo Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs Daystar University About the Contributor(s): Faustin Ntamushobora (PhD Biola University) is from Rwanda. He is President and CEO of Transformational Leadership in Africa and serves as Adjunct Professor at Biola University and International Leadership University Nairobi Kenya. He is the author of From Trials to Triumphs and several articles published in Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Common Ground Journal.