Advancing Models of Mission

Description

Weighing Approaches to Finish the Task
Christians have been reflecting on best practices for as long as they have been engaging in missions. Practitioners have developed diverse strategies to promote the spread of the Gospel—such as indigenous church planting, disciple-making movements, community development, dynamically equivalent Bible translations, and chronological Bible storytelling. These models began as creative analyses of the mission endeavor, in light of the current cultural context. As that context shifts, it is also important to critically re-examine these models.
Advancing Models of Mission reflects on the missionaries and models of the past and reconsiders current models, all with the aim of looking toward the future of evangelical mission. This compendium of thirteen essays tackles such timely and difficult questions as:
-How does globalization challenge the 10/40 window model?
-How does hybridity and diaspora change the way we think about people groupsand identity formation?
-How does the colonial history in Africa affect believers' connection with globalevangelism?
Readers can learn about the contexts of the past that shaped our current missiological models while listening to diverse voices describe how those models are experienced considering our changing realities. Through honest analysis of the past few centuries of missionary movement, Advancing Models of Mission provides hope for the future.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Growth
• Christian Church

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 14 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645084105
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Other Books in the EMS Series
N 1 Scripture and Strategy: The Use of the Bible in Postmodern Church and Mission
D AVID H ESSELGRAVE
N 2 Christianity and the Religions: A Biblical Theology of World Religions
E DWARD R OMMEN and H AROLD N ETLAND
N 3 Spiritual Power and Missions: Raising the Issues
E DWARD R OMMEN
N 4 Missiology and the Social Sciences: Contributions, Cautions, and the Conclusions
E DWARD R OMMEN and G ARY C ORWIN
N 5 The Holy Spirit and Mission Dynamics
D OUGLAS M C C ONNELL
N 6 Reaching the Resistant: Barriers and Bridges for Mission
D UDLEY W OODBERRY
N 7 Teaching Them Obedience in All Things: Equipping for the 21st Century
E DGAR E LLISTON
N 8 Working Together With God to Shape the New Millennium: Opportunities and Limitations
K ENNETH M ULHOLLAND and G ARY C ORWIN
N 9 Caring for the Harvest Force in the New Millennium
T OM S TEFFEN and D OUGLAS P ENNOYER
N 10 Between Past and Future: Evangelical Mission Entering the Twenty-first Century
J ONATHAN B ONK
N 11 Christian Witness in Pluralistic Contexts in the Twenty-first Century
E NOCH W AN
N 12 The Centrality of Christ in Contemporary Missions
M IKE B ARNETT and M ICHAEL P OCOCK
N 13 Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents
G AILYN V AN R HEENEN
N 14 Business as Mission: From Impoverished to Empowered
T OM S TEFFEN and M IKE B ARNETT
N 15 Missions in Contexts of Violence
K EITH E ITEL
N 16 Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions: Doing it Right !
R OBERT J. P RIEST
N 17 Missions from the Majority World: Progress, Challenges, and Case Studies
E NOCH W AN and M ICHAEL P OCOCK
N 18 Serving Jesus with Integrity: Ethics and Accountability in Mission
D WIGHT P. B AKER and D OUGLAS H AYWARD
N 19 Reflecting God s Glory Together: Diversity in Evangelical Mission
A. S COTT M OREAU and B ETH S NODDERLY
N 20 Reaching the City: Reflections on Urban Mission for the Twenty-first Century
G ARY F UJINO , T IMOTHY R. S ISK , and T ERESO C. C ASINO
N 21 Missionary Methods: Research, Reflections, and Realities
C RAIG O TT and J. D. P AYNE
N 22 The Missionary Family: Witness, Concerns, Care
D WIGHT P. B AKER and R OBERT J. P RIEST
N 23 Diaspora Missiology: Reflections on Reaching the Scattered Peoples of the Word
M ICHAEL P OCOCK and E NOCH W AN
N 24 Controversies in Mission: Theology, People, and Practice of Mission in the 21st Century
R OCHELLE C ATHCART S CHEUERMANN and E DWARD L. S MITHER
N 25 Churches on Mission: God s Grace Abounding to the Nations
G EOFFREY H ARTT , C HRISTOPHER R. L ITTLE , and J OHN W ANG
N 26 Majority World Theologies: Self-theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth
A LLEN Y EH and T ITE T I NOU
N 27 Against the Tide: Mission Amidst the Global Currents of Secularization
W. J AY M OON and C RAIG O TT
N 28 Practicing Hope: Missions and Global Crises
J ERRY I RELAND and M ICHELLE R AVEN

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The Evangelical Missiological Society is a professional organization with more than 400 members comprised of missiologists, mission administrators, reflective mission practitioners, teachers, pastors with strategic missiological interests, and students of missiology. EMS exists to advance the cause of world evangelization. We do this through study and evaluation of mission concepts and strategies from a biblical perspective with a view to commending sound mission theory and practice to churches, mission agencies, and schools of missionary training around the world. We hold an annual national conference and eight regional meetings in the United States and Canada.

Advancing Models of Mission: Evaluating the Past and Looking to the Future
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Contents
Preface
BY K ENNETH N EHRBASS , A MINTA A RRINGTON, AND N ARRY S ANTOS
Part 1 | Looking Back: Missionaries and Models from the Past
Chapter 1
How shall they hear? A History of the Use of Romans 10:14 among Missionaries to China, as Seen in the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, 1868 to 1938
BY M ATTHEW S TEVEN W INSLOW
Chapter 2
Evangelicalism: A Transnational Movement in East Africa during the Twentieth Century
BY E MMA W ILD -W OOD
Chapter 3
The Future of the Evangelical Missionary Movement Must Include an Accurate Portrayal of Her Past
BY L INDA S AUNDERS
Chapter 4
Bartholom us Ziegenbalg Models Holistic Missions: Pietism in Eighteenth-Century Southern India
BY R OBERT L. G ALLAGHER
Chapter 5
The Proper Place for a Woman
BY X ENIA L. C HAN AND L ISA H. P AK
Part 2 | Revisiting Long-Held Models
Chapter 6
Five Decades, Four Questions, and One Which Remains: Queries Concerning the Unreached People Group Movement
BY K EN B AKER
Chapter 7
To the Ends of the Earth through Strategic Urban Centers: Reexamining the Missions Mandate in Light of the New Testament s Use of the Old Testament
BY M ICHAEL D. C RANE
Chapter 8
Missiology through the Lens of Disability: Assessing the Unreached People Group Idea
BY R OCHELLE S CHEUERMANN
Chapter 9
Hybridity, Borderlands, and Paul Hiebert: A Latinx Missiologist Reexamines Critical Contextualization
BY M ARTIN R ODRIGUEZ
Chapter 10
Social Action as Christian Social Apologetics: Through the Lives of Pandita Ramabai and Amy Carmichael
BY A LLAN V ARGHESE
Part 3 | Moving Forward: Missiological Models for Missions in the Future
Chapter 11
Old Questions, New Answers: Tensions of Continuity and Change in Approaches to the Missio Dei
BY A NNETTE R. H ARRISON
Chapter 12
Evangelical Mission in an Age of Global Christianity
BY T ODD M. J OHNSON
Appendix
Lessons in Mission Strategy from the Last Fifty Years: Thirty Mission Trends, Movements, and Models
BY L UIS K. B USH AND T OM S TEFFEN
About the Contributors
Preface
As long as Christians have been engaging in missions, they have been reflecting on the best way to do missions. From China at the turn of the last century, Roland Allen critiqued the Anglican mission of which he was a part, believing that their mission station approach did not lead to the spontaneous expansion of the church. From India, Donald McGavran argued in his book The Bridges of God that church growth happens best through family and kinship ties. Based on his missionary experience among the Maasai in Tanzania, Vincent Donovan eschewed individual conversions in favor of community-wide statements of faith. Over the last few centuries of the missionary movement, strategies have been developed for indigenous church planting, Bible translation, orality, people movements, social justice, education, and chronological Bible storytelling.
The world is changing; strategies for discipling the nations must be regularly examined and updated to address those changes. The Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS), an academic organization committed to using research to advance the cause of world evangelization, 1 recognized this need for updating missionary methods and strategies. EMS determined that the theme for 2020 would be The Past and Future of Evangelical Mission and encouraged members to rethink long-held paradigms of missiology in preparation for the regional and national meetings. Dozens of professors of missions, mission leaders, and missiology students wrote papers for their regional EMS gatherings, on themes ranging from Business as Mission (BAM), to the C-Spectrum, to historical approaches toward women in missions, to the implications of missions for those with disabilities or mental health issues. Many of these authors were recommended to bring their presentations to the national conference in September of 2020-a conference that, as things turned out, could not have any in-person meetings.
The worldwide struggle with COVID-19 served as a poignant example that missiology must be flexible and responsive to the times. The fact that EMS was able to move the conference fully online offers encouraging evidence that evangelical stakeholders in missions do, in fact, listen to the needs of the day and respond with nimbleness.
Many of the presentations at the EMS conference on The Past and Future of Evangelical Mission also demonstrated ways in which missionaries are