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 ...
The question, “What is missiology?” is one I have been asked many times by those wholly unfamiliar with the discipline or with any theology-related discipline, for that matter. I have learned over the years to offer up relatively simple (perhaps simplistic) answers depending on my interlocutor (e.g., “Missiology explores ...
Missiology—or sometimes “mission studies”— is the study of Christian mission(s). Every generation of Christians has asked what Jesus Christ requires of his disciples, and Christians have been learning and teaching how to share the good news for more than two millennia. However, missiology emerged as a field of ...
A few years ago, I was checking in at an airline counter for an overseas flight. When the attendant noticed the prefix “Dr.” on my name, she asked in what field was I a doctor (often airlines like to know if there is a physician onboard). I told her I ...
Missiology is “the systematic study of all aspects of mission.” I am borrowing here Andrew Walls’s (and in turn Stanley Skreslet’s) definition.1 Let me explain.
The simple, straightforward answer to the simple, straightforward question “What is missiology?” can be taken from its component terms missio and logos ...
Before being able to give a definition on what is missiology, I think we need to define the term mission as such. Afterwards, it will be easier to give a definition of missiology, the science of mission.
Inside the church premises, mission is one of those ...
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