The Three Horizons: Culture, Integration and Communication
What is the role of context and contextualization in the communication of the gospel? The paper takes a look at and evaluates different contextualization theories.
What is the role of context and contextualization in the communication of the gospel? The paper takes a look at and evaluates different contextualization theories.
The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of a self-supporting church. The relationship between the sending church and the mission church is crucial, especially when it comes to money. The author points out errors from the past, but also gives directives for creating a self-supporting church.
The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of the indigenous church being self-propagating, discussing the importance of location, ability to speak the local language, developing instructional material in the local language, good books, training each believer to witness, and the training of children.
The goal of mission work is to create indigenous churches which become self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. This article looks at the aspect of the indigenous church being self-governing, providing six things to consider in relation to church government.
What is an indigenous church? This is the question every missionary and sending church is asking. This article looks at the history of mission work during the colonization era and points to how things were done wrong. The author also discusses what it means to be an indigenous church.
This article is about missions to Islam, Islam and the Western culture, the danger of secularism in missions.
This article is about the Christian missions and the Islam faith. The author also discusses Islam and the Western culture, and the effect of secularism on missions.
This article discusses the nature of Britian as a multi-cultural society, and then discusses how the Church of England can practice evangelism toward this society.
The African church has become a major influence in Christianity. An important contributor of international reputation is Kwame Bediako, a scholar from Ghana.
Ramachandra sets the challenge of contemporary Christian discipleship and mission in the context of our changing political, economic and cultural context. He presents a vision of the gospel and the Church of Christ as the true universalism in the context of globalization.