Apostolic Function in 21st Century Missions
Alan Johnson and his wife, Lynette, have served with Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM) since 1986. They lived in Thailand for thirty-four years, working in church planting and strengthening local churches. Since 2021 Alan has helped in developing missiological resources or AGWM’s global workers, the sending base church, and training institutions. Currently, he is part of the lead team for AGWM’s missiology think tank. He teaches on issues of contextualization in the Intercultural Studies PhD program at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
The Paradigm of Missionary Identity
In the past we have focused on the “why” of missions in terms of motives, the “what” of missions in terms of the content of the message, and the “how” of missions in terms of methodologies and strategies, but the “where” question, in terms of where we send cross-cultural workers, has simply been assumed; it has meant crossing a geographic boundary.
In Apostolic Function in 21st Century Missions, Alan R. Johnson introduces the idea of apostolic function as the paradigm of missionary self-identity that reminds us to focus our efforts on where Christ is not named. He then examines in detail the “where” paradigm in missions, frontier mission missiology, with a sympathetic critique and a review of the major contributions of unreached people group thinking. Johnson concludes by illustrating his notion of seeking to integrate missions paradigms and discussing of issues that relate specifically to the “where” questions of missions today.
2nd in the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, J. Philip Hogan World Missions Series
About the Author J. Philip Hogan
World Missions Series Introduction Preface
Chapter 1- Introduction
Chapter 2- The Growing Lack of Clarity About Missions
Chapter 3- The Notion of Paradigms and Missions
Chapter 4- Apostolic Function: The Paradigm of Missionary Identity
Chapter 5- Insights from Frontier Mission Missiology
Chapter 6- Problems and Contributions from Frontier Mission Missiology
Chapter 7- The power of integrating paradigms
Chapter 8- Issues
Works Cited
Index
Author
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Alan R. Johnson
Alan R. Johnson
Alan Johnson and his wife, Lynette, have served with Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM) since 1986. They lived in Thailand for thirty-four years, working in church planting and strengthening local churches. Since 2021 Alan has helped in developing missiological resources or AGWM’s global workers, the sending base church, and training institutions. Currently, he is part of the lead team for AGWM’s missiology think tank. He teaches on issues of contextualization in the Intercultural Studies PhD program at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
- Pages: 258
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 2009
- Vendor: William Carey Publishing
