Abstract
This article deals with culture and cross-cultural communication. More specifically, the concept of mana in the Melanesian worldview plays a significant role in that culture. I will discuss various approaches to cross-cultural communication of the gospel that have been and continue to be used in Papua New Guinea and suggest some reasons why they have come up short. I suggest that the much-neglected field of elenctics must be utilized more and provide ways that this can be done in the context of mana and the Melanesian worldview. KEYWORDS: Worldview, elenctics, communication, animism, culture, gospel, syncretism, Melanesian Christianity, mission
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