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The Edinburgh 2010 study process is unique. Set up to mark the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910, it is a project of churches worldwide that is multi-regional, cross-denominational, and poly-centric. It involves all the major Christian world bodies, including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal, with study events taking place on every continent and involving hundreds of Christians in different parts...
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It is here, under these trees on my desert island that this volume takes on meaning because its authors honestly struggle with and debate how we should relate to postmodernities. Should our response be accommodation, relativizing or counter-culture? How do we strike a balance between listening and understanding, and at the same time exploring how postmodernities influence the interpretation and application of the Bible as the normative story of God's...
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Contextualisation and Mission Training offers "contextual frameworks" and "explorations" in order to prompt deeper engagement with the complexity of Asian social, cultural, and religious systems. When we take contextualization theories seriously, how does it change the way we prepare and train cross-cultural workers? This book seeks to raise pertinent and controversial issues related to some of the challenges facing the Asian church in engaging with...
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The depth and complexity of interconnected global issues facing church and mission leadership today cannot be ignored. Leaders within global church and mission movements are challenged to respond to effects of globalization and other factors upon the mission of God. Rather than modifying existing models of leadership, there is critical need to understand an emerging global missional leadership paradigm against the backdrop of a world full of discontinuous...
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"Resilience" has become something of a buzzword in recent years, especially in the field of member care, but what is it? This book aims to answer this and other important questions. Part 1 evaluates over forty years of resilience research, exploring how the concept has been understood in different contexts and what it looks like in the context of cross-cultural mission. Part 2 reviews methods used for assessing resilience and suggests different means...
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Based on qualitative research, this book explores and analyses issues surrounding the re-entry journey of cross-cultural mission workers. It aims to promote deeper understanding and increased awareness of the complex nature of the re-entry experience, while highlighting that loss and grief is a key aspect of it. The book advocates the necessity of a substantially more pro-active and rigorous approach in caring for mission personnel as they navigate...
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How does Ormilla, a hungry outcast girl in South Asia, turn into a flourishing young woman confidently leading a preschool? How does a violent part of Belfast City in the United Kingdom, where youths used to throw stones at police cars, develop into a thriving community? And how does Peter in Kenya, an alcoholic dressed in rags covered with mud, become a dignified Christian man full of joy and no longer poor?
The answer? They've been transformed...
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