Author Archives: relationalrealism

Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible

Co-authored-by Arthur F. Glasser, Charles E. Van Engen, Dean S. Gilliland, and Shawn B. Redford. This book offers an overall biblical and theological sound study with in-depth approach about the Kingdom of God and church’s mission.  The authors not only explore the Kingdom of God in sequence from Genesis to Revelation, but also cross-reference throughoutContinue reading “Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible”

Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations

Edited by Bruce Riley Ashford, this publication is to understand the church’s mission to the nations from a biblical and theological framework in four parts.  The first part is God’s mission which is to redeem the fallen people for his glory and his Kingdom.  The Church’s mission is the second part which begins with humanityContinue reading “Theology and Practice of Mission: God, the Church, and the Nations”

Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches

The author, Graham Hill, aims to help Euro-shaped cultural churches become a global missional church which is to be salt, light, and a city locally and globally by engaging in global missional dialogues to learn from the Majority World.  Being salt is to increase our saltiness through glocalization conversations.  Being light is to renew ourContinue reading “Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches”

Diaspora Missions to International Students

Co-authored-by Drs. Enoch Wan and Dennis Bradford. The distinctive approach for international student ministry is integrative of two paradigms, i.e. diaspora missiological paradigm and relational paradigm.

Relational Missionary Training: Theology, Theory & Practice

Co-authored-by: Drs. Enoch Wan and Mark Hedinger. Reality is based on relationships between created beings and Creator Beings. Mission work is about human beings who are in relationship with God introducing yet other human beings to Him. God’s purpose is relational. Our calling in mission is relational and training for mission also needs to beContinue reading “Relational Missionary Training: Theology, Theory & Practice”

Moving to Reach the People on the Move

Dr. Enoch Wan gave a presentation at Cape Town 2010 to discuss the variety of “diaspora missions” approaches that have been created to effectively reach peoples on the move. https://www.lausanne.org/content/moving-reach-people-move?_sft_post_tag=diasporas&_sfm_wpcf-groupings=Session+Videos