Is It Beautiful?

I know you heard the slogan, "America the Beautiful." We say it and sing it like we mean it, do we? Is it really? We celebrate it and talk about as if it is God ordained, is it? Questions like these and many more are tough. I don't claim to have all the answers; I just want to ask the questions. These questions and thoughts have emerged in my brain because of a class I am taking. In my class, Cross-Cultural Communication, we have been dialoging about our core values. We communicate our core values, whether we realize it or not; therefore a tendency in our interaction with the "foreign mission" is to communicate “American Christianity”. We communicate that "The American" way is the right way. Are we called to be Christ's Ambassadors or American Ambassadors?

Cross-cultural ministry doesn't just happen on another continent, it happens in our county, our state, our city, and our neighborhood. As Christ followers we must be able to effectively communicate the message of the Gospel without any pre-conceived notions, a task, which is easier, said then done. No matter where we are we must be communicate "God's way" not the "American way".

Questions:

1) If you have been overseas as a missionary how have you dealt with this?
2) Do you battle with the idea of communicating "God's agenda" instead of the "American agenda"?
3) Is it even possible to do so?