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Perspectives on church and mission: The missional church and metaphors for the church
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 The most important issues for the missional church should be to establish the relation between mission and the church. The methodology used is to listen to voices concerning relevant issues in the missional church. Many important aspects of the missional
Pieter Verster
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caught most organisations, institutions and leaders off-guard, including church leaders. This was not any different in the congregations in the townships of the Mangaung Metro Municipality.
Eugene Baron, Khamadi J. Pali
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Small Missional Church as an alternative in the period of Church Decline in Korea
Ecclesial Futures, 2023 This article examines the causes and circumstances of the decline of Korean churches since the 2000s. After briefly sketching the history and critical events of the growth of the Korean church, it pays attention to one of the leading reasons people leave
An-wei Tan
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Ecclesial Futures, 2020 Working at the intersection of ethnographic and missional theology, this essay argues for the central role of fieldwork for discerning missional identity in congregations.
Scott J. Hagley
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Mongolian Migrants in a Korean Missional Church:
Ecclesial Futures, 2023 Ever since Lesslie Newbigin’s missional ecclesiology was introduced to South Korean churches in 2000, Korean scholars and pastors have been reaching beyond church growth theory to explore alternative and practical models. Missional ecclesiology led them
Seon-Yi Lee
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My Pilgrimage to the Missional in South Africa
Ecclesial Futures, 2021 The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa at its 2013 General Synod made a bold resolution—to be a missional church. This resolution was not only an acknowledgement of past failures, but also a commitment to deep and lasting reform.
Coenie Burger
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017 The missional church is a new consciousness which has been raised for the missionary sending of the church in the West to be a witness for the Kingdom of God in its own context. The missional church has returned mission to the centre of ecclesiology.
Timothy A. van Aarde
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A Korean perspective on megachurches as missional churches
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 Both the megachurch and the missional church are on-going global phenomena. Working from the premise that the church has to be missional, this article operates from a Korean perspective and researches whether a megachurch can be missional. The megachurch
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt, Yongsoo Lee
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Compassionate Acts as Missional Theosis: A Call to the Evangelical Church of Southern Africa (ESCA) [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The Church is God's agency to bring about well-being in the world (Harold, 2018a). This bringing out of well-being to humanity call for an understanding of justice and compassion through a missional reading of the Bible and its intersection with "actions"
Prof. Dr Godfrey Harold
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Church, mission and ethics. Being church with integrity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 This article is an exercise in Practical Ecclesiology. The author reflects on church, mission and ethics from historical, hermeneutical and strategic perspectives.
Wim Dreyer
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