Lausanne Movement Occasional Paper (LOP #70). This position paper was prepared by the Diaspora Issue Network of the Lausanne Movement. The principal author is Dr Sam George (India/USA) and was written in August 2023. This paper was developed with inputs from the executive team of the Global Diaspora Network, composed of Dr T.V. Thomas (Malaysia/Canada), Dr Bulus Galadima (Nigeria/USA), Rev Barnabas Moon (South Korea), Rev Art Medina (the Philippines), Dr Paul Sydnor(France), Rev Joel Wright(Brazil/USA), Dr Elizabeth Mburu (Kenya), Dr Hannah Hyun (Australia/South Korea), Dr Jeanne Wu (Taiwan/USA), Dr John Park (South Korea/USA), and Dr Godfrey Harold (South Africa).
Christianity is a missionary faith par excellence since it is a faith that was born to travel. In fact, the mobility of its adherents and the moving nature of God are what make the Christian faith a transportable and translatable faith, as it continually transcends borders of all kinds over time. Seeing God as a moving being and his ongoing work as a result of the moving of God is a helpful way to develop a theology and missiology for a world in motion. The migrants, displaced, and diasporas are at the forefront of God’s mission in the world today. As evident in the earlier eras of Christianity, the people on the move are powerful agents of growth, spread, and transformation of God’s work in the world and will continue to shape the contours of the advancement of Christianity in the 21st century and beyond.
https://lausanne.org/occasional-paper/lausanne-occasional-paper-people-on-the-move
Relational Realism for Christian Ministry 關係論與基督教事工 