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Contents:
About the Author
J. Philip Hogan World Missions Series Introduction
Preface
1 Introduction
Beginning to See the “Where” Question
The Main Arguments in Brief
Overview of the Chapters
2 The Growing Lack of Clarity About Missions
Evidence for a Shift in Understanding of the Ideas of Missions and Missionary
An Analysis of Why Views of Missions Have Changed
The Need for New Thinking
Chapter Summary
3 THE NOTION OF PARADIGMS AND MISSIONS
Shaping a Missiology for Our Current Context: Thinking Paradigmatically About Missions
Macro-Paradigms
The Benefits of Mid-Level Mission Paradigms
Chapter Summary and Conclusions
4 APOSTOLIC FUNCTION: THE PARADIGM OF MISSIONARY IDENTITY
Biblical Overview
The Work of Apostles
Proclaiming the Kingdom, Bearing Witness to Jesus, and Planting Churches
Ministry With Power, Signs, and Wonders
Ministry Led by the Holy Spirit
Suffering
Caring for the Weak
Ministry as an Apostolic Team
Where Apostolic Ministry Took Place
Pioneer Church Planting
Specific Callings and Specific Guidance
Paul’s Zeal to Preach Where Christ Was Not Known
The Holy Spirit Guided Their Work
Apostles and Missionaries: The Challenge of Terminology
Apostolic Function is a Heuristic that Defines for Us What, Why, and How We Work
Apostolic Function Means there are Some Things We Choose Not to Do
Apostolic Function Means that all Evangelism is Not Equal
Apostolic Function Does Not Limit God’s Sovereignty in Calling
Apostolic Function Requires Teams with a Multiplicity of Giftings
Apostolic Function Does Not Require Redeployment
Apostolic Function Solves the Problem of Redundancy
Apostolic Function Provides a Way to Link the Planting of the Church With the Demonstration of Christian Social Concern
A Practical Objection: What If I Do Not Feel Very Apostolic?
Conclusion and Summary
5 INSIGHTS FROM FRONTIER MISSION MISSIOLOGY
Winter’s Presentation at Lausanne 1974
The Significance of the E-Scale: All Evangelism is Not Equal
A Distinction Between Frontier and Regular Missions
Defining Missiological Breakthrough
Sociological Difference in Evangelism
The Significance of the P-Scale: Connecting Cross-Cultural Workers to the Greatest Need
Missiological Reality Changes Over Time
The Need Based in Biblical Reality
The Task Remaining in Terms of Peoples
Defining and Counting People Groups
Defining Unreached and Reached
Summary and Conclusions
6 PROBLEMS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FRONTIER MISSION MISSIOLOGY
Problems
The Problem of a Minimalist Conception of the Great Commission
Strategic Problems Arising From the Human Construct of Closure
Strategic Problems with the Reached/ Unreached Distinction
Problems with the Notion of “People Groups”
The Implication that Frontier Mission is the Only Valid Form of Mission
Bypassing Mission Agencies and Amateurism in Mission
Contributions
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Evangelism
Addressing the Imbalance in Missionary Placement
The Passion to Reach the Lost
The Changing Role and Strategic Nature of Every Missionary
The Missionary Role of the Majority World Churches
Sharpening the Focus of Mission Agencies
It Breaks Down the Home/Foreign Distinction by Focusing on Cultural Boundaries and Can Reinvigorate All Kinds of Evangelism
The Concept of Cultural Distance in Evangelism Challenges All Churches to be Missional at All Points in the E-Scale
Clarifies the National Missionary Question
Challenges Us to a Theology of Success: What Do We Do If It Works?
Beats the Trap of Double-Blindness
Clarifies the Task so that We are Not Forced to Use Language that Pits One Part of the World Against Another
Summary and Conclusion
7 The power of integrating paradigms
A Comprehensive and Integrative Approach to Mission Practice
A Comprehensive Approach
Integrating the Four Paradigms
8 Issues related to the “where” question in missions
Issues Relating to the Placement of Cross-Cultural Workers
Issues Relating to Terminology
Issues Relating to our Use of Human Constructs
Some Concluding Thoughts
Works Cited
Index
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