relationalrealism

ISLAMIC ECONOMICS FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AND MISSION

John Cheong.

World Development Report 2023

The World Bank. World Development Report 2023 proposes an integrated framework to maximize the development impacts of cross-border movements on both destination and origin countries and on migrants and refugees themselves. The framework it offers, drawn from labor economics and international law, rests on a “match and motive” matrix that focuses on two factors: how closely migrants’Continue reading “World Development Report 2023”

Motivations for Missions: A Relational-Covenantal Perspective

Enoch Wan and Christopher M. Santiago . The purpose of this book is to explore motivations for mission from a covenantal perspective within a relational framework in three steps: exploring the topic theologically, examining it theoretically, and deriving missiological implications. This book is a contribution to an underrepresented perspective to the missiological research on motivesContinue reading “Motivations for Missions: A Relational-Covenantal Perspective”

Transformational Growth: Intercultural Leadership, Discipleship, Mentorship

Enoch Wan, Mark Hedinger and Jon Ribley. This book is a sequel to an earlier publication by Enoch Wan & Jon Ribley, Transformational Change in Christian Ministry (2022) which provided the theoretical framework for this book. While the focus of the earlier work is on “transformational change” generally, this one is on “transformational growth” specificallyContinue reading “Transformational Growth: Intercultural Leadership, Discipleship, Mentorship”

Utilizing Indigenous Cultural Traits for Cross-Cultural Missions

PAUL SUNGRO LEE. It is tactical for the global body of Christ in the current page of missio Dei to develop cross-cultural workers who will cultivate their own cultural uniqueness, utilize it for the benefit of the Great Commission, and mobilize it to reach under-reached groups in similar cultural backgrounds. We must not merely replicate the standardizedContinue reading “Utilizing Indigenous Cultural Traits for Cross-Cultural Missions”

The Whole Gospel and Community Organizing

ALEXIA SALVATIERRA. In Acts 2, the believers shared all things in common, showing their faith through their radical generosity and deep commitment to one another’s wellbeing. The Lord added to their number daily. The whole gospel includes the proclamation and incarnation of the love of Christ in which the body of Christ makes him visibleContinue reading “The Whole Gospel and Community Organizing”

A Radical Vision of the Whole Church

Wonsuk Ma. The whole church, with every believer, is called to God’s mission.[6] The historical development of Christian mission, especially in recent centuries, made the Christian faith a truly global religion. At the same time, a monumental task is before us to mobilize the whole church and every Christian for mission. And we live in aContinue reading “A Radical Vision of the Whole Church”

MIGRATION SPHERE: DEVELOPING THE “RECEIVING FAITH” THAT WELCOMES SOJOURNERS

Today, over 1 billion people are on the move. The total estimated 281 million people living in a country other than their countries of birth in 2020 was 128 million more than in 1990, and over three times the estimated number in 1970. Europe and Asia each hosted around 87 and 86 million international migrants,Continue reading “MIGRATION SPHERE: DEVELOPING THE “RECEIVING FAITH” THAT WELCOMES SOJOURNERS”

Status of Global Christianity 2023

International Bulletin of Mission Research. This table is derived from Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson, and Peter F. Crossing, “World Christianity 2023: A Gendered Approach,” International Bulletin of Mission Research, Vol. 47 (1), January 2023, pp 71-80. The table provides a statistical overview of the world’s 2.6 billion Christians and their activities. https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2023/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2023.pdf

CONTEXTUALIZATION THE ASIAN WAY: RELATIONAL CONTEXTUALIZATION

Enoch Wan and Siu Kuen Sonia Chan. This paper is an attempt to introduce the Asian way for the practice of contextualization: a relational approach and relational ontological orientation. Most evangelicals’ attempt of contextualization thus far is the western style: rationalist, cognitive, programmatic, pragmatic and outcome-based. In this paper, relational contextualization is proposed as anContinue reading “CONTEXTUALIZATION THE ASIAN WAY: RELATIONAL CONTEXTUALIZATION”