In teaching a seminar or class on Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts,1 I briefly describe the interrelated sectors of the Missional Helix.2
Because animistic assumptions are typically foreign to those who are from the West or inculcated with Western cultural values, I typically begin this seminar with “Cultural ...
Missions and the discipline of missiology are important because without missions there is no church. When missions goes into decline, so does the church. Missions is the lifeblood of the church.
The focus of missiology as a discipline is to equip disciples who walk with Jesus and who equip others ...
Approximately the first two years on the mission field are appropriately called the learning period or the adaptation stage. Missionaries are learning to live in new contexts and adapt to them. During this period, four interrelated types of learning take place. Missionaries learn (1) to speak a ...
Many "trained" missionaries begin their work in a cross-cultural context without a clear understanding of the missionary task. From a personal perspective this statement was partially descriptive of our missions team. We were well prepared to learn new languages and cultures. We had basic preparation to lead unbelievers into ...
When a Christian movement is established without inducements of finance or favor but through heartfelt response to the proclamation of the kingdom of God, authentic national leaders mature in Christ to stand with church planting missionaries as leaders of God’s movement. With the maturing of devout, responsible ...
At the conclusion of his theological treatise to the Romans Paul describes how he had fully preached the Gospel from Jerusalem to Illyriucum, laying new foundations wherever he ministered (Rom. 15:19-20). In this process it was his custom to appoint elders, and through prayer and fasting, "commit ...
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