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Trends in missional ecclesiology [PDF]
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012 Missional ecclesiology emerged as one of the significant trends in mission studies and ecumenical discussion in the last couple of years. What were these trends in missional ecclesiology?
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt
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The Missional Church movement [PDF]
, 2013 At the beginning of the 21st century, many different voices have been drawing our attention to two realities that are shaping the future of Christianity: the centre of gravity for the Christian faith has shiſted to the global South and to the East; and the
T. Sheridan, H. J. Hendriks
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Acts for today’s missional church [PDF]
, 2010 This article investigated the challenges associated with being a missional church in an everchanging world and possible patterns to live missionally in new contexts. The need for Christian missions to be radically contextual in facing up to these changes
C. Niemandt
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Church, mission and ethics. Being church with integrity [PDF]
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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, 2011 Statistical evidence is clear; the Evangelical churches in North America are in decline. There are many reasons for this decline, not least of which is the reality that the North American Evangelical churches now exist in a post-Christendom milieu. A new
Rob Elkington
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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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Religions, 2022 The great commission, as traditionally understood in Christendom, has been the core basis for church growth. Passion for the lost, evangelism outreach, conversions, and baptism followed by congregating, have culminated in church establishments ...
P. White, Simbarashe Pondani
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A fatherless South Africa: The importance of missional parenting and the role of the church
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 This article employs descriptive and explorative methods concerning father absence and missional parenting. It identifies numerous ramifications caused by father absence and the failing role of men. Father absence has been a serious social issue in South
F. Freeks
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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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