Implications of Three Models of Contextualization for Local Ministry
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July 1, 2014
An analysis of local attempts at theologizing within a cultural context is a tool for establishing foci for ministry.
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The Break Through Process: Reflections of a Missiological Field Research Coach
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July 1, 2014
A simplified, yet thorough method for small-scale and personal research in missions.
Holistic Church Planting: Moving Beyond Polemics to Obedience
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July 1, 2014
The author shows how unclear constructs hurt the cause of integration, and suggests a more fundamental point of integration for church planting and social action.
Discovering the Secret Stories of God:
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July 1, 2014
The woman told me her story quietly as we huddled around the table in her cramped home in Serbia. She was younger than me, and yet her face bore the deeply worn evidence of hardship and struggle for survival. Like many other Romani people in Eastern Europe, she was impoverished and illiterate, and I found myself completely captured by her story. Married at 16, she had her first of seven children at 17. Both of the men who fathered her children were abusive alcoholics.
Fresh Expressions of Church
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July 1, 2014
We aren’t mad at the Masons. We’re not at odds with the Odd Fellows. And we’ve got no beef with the Moose.The two of us just aren’t going to join the Masonic Temple, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, or the Moose Lodge. No matter how well they decorate their meeting places. No matter how well their speakers speak. We’re just not going. For one thing, their rituals seem rather peculiar to us as outsiders. More importantly, we simply don’t see that they offer us any value. Again, we aren’t in opposition to them; we’re just not going to go to their meetings or join their ranks.
Engaging Women in Mission Leadership
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July 1, 2014
As an increasing number of mission agencies desire to involve more gifted women as decision-makers in their executive and board leadership structures, they are experiencing difficulty in finding them. How can we create more avenues to find, develop, support, and retain more gifted women to bring the perspective and talent that we desire for our organizations?
Asia in the Making of Christianity: Conversion, Agency, and Indigeneity, 1600s to the Present
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July 1, 2014
—Reviewed by Aminta Arrington, PhD candidate, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University.
Beyond Literate Western Models: Contextualizing Theological Education in Oral Contexts
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July 1, 2014
by Samuel E. Chiang and Grant Lovejoy, eds. International Orality Network in cooperation with Capstone Enterprises, Hong Kong, 229 pages, 2013, $9.95 (Kindle) or free download from the International
From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
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July 1, 2014
by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 189 pages, 2013, $18.99. —Review by Chuck Davis, partner professor, Intercultural Studies, Alliance Theological Seminary; senior pastor,
New Narratives toward a Biblical Response to Animism: Perspective from Church History & Scripture
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April 1, 2014
The author shares selected scripture passages as heuristic devices to teach lessons relevant to the worldviews of animistic peoples.
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