Michael Barram's book merits many readers, as it constitutes an invitation to an inspirational, unsettling biblical rereading of the paths of a
missional hermeneutics and with a holistic economic justice perspective.
(32) The enslaving capacity of economic globalization--which has co-opted global democracy to support its agenda of total control of the global economy--necessitates that
missional resistance is necessary to ensure human dignity over life-denying forces.
Thinkers like Lesslie Newbigin, the great twentieth-century missiologist, have shown the relevance of a
missional mindset thereto.
What might be happening already that would be promising for the cause of local congregations taking up the
missional challenge with new energy and hope?
Theological education from disability perspectives for
missional formation
This lingering postwar, 1950s model of membership church that existed primarily to meet the needs of those consumers in the pews rather than those outside the walls of the church, is an ongoing obstacle to
missional practice in the mainline church.
A church planter, he is coauthor of Planting
Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply (second edition, 2016).
Church On The Other Side, a project of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference, is working to network, equip and resource church planters,
missional experimenters and everyone in between.
When Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, visited their parish, the youth shared messages with him about why they think it's important to be part of a
missional church.
After a general introduction and background of his study, he discusses contextualization as a vital tool for creating an informed interpretation and appropriation of justification by faith alone, the
missional journey of justification by faith alone from St.
Her aim is to reclaim for Protestant ecclesiology the church's "
missional" impetus.
The presbytery has a strong
missional identity and significant global mission involvement.