Churches on Mission (EMS 25)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents  CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Geoffrey Hartt, Christopher R. Little, and John Wang

Part One
Church on Mission in Biblical and Historical Perspectives
1 | BASIC CHURCH: FREEING CROSS-CULTURAL church planting WITH New Testament ESSENTIALS
J. Scott Horrell
2 | WHEN THE CHURCH WAS THE MISSION ORGANIZATION: RETHINKING WINTER’S TWO STRUCTURES OF REDEMPTION PARADIGM
Edward L. Smither
3 | FROM SOLIDARITY TO SODALITY: COMPASSIONATE MISSION, LOCAL CHURCHES, AND THE FOSTERING OF CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARY BANDS
Jerry M. Ireland

Part Two
CHURCH ON MISSION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
4 | MISSIONS AND THE LOCAL CHURCH: ONE PERSPECTIVE
Boris Sarlabous
5 | THE BRAZILIAN NEOCHARISMATIC MOVEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION
Murilo R. Melo
6 | A TALE OF THREE URBAN CHURCHES: THE LOCAL CHURCHES’ ROLE OF MISSION IN CONTEMPORARY China
Zhiqiu Xu
7 | CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION FROM MONOCULTURAL TO MULTICULTURAL: THE ST. ANDREW’S SCOTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND THE SIN HENG TAIWANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Guillermo Mac Kenzie

Part Three
Church on Mission in North American Perspective
8 | BACK TO MISSION: THE MISSIONAL CHURCH AND THE BLACK CHURCH
Michelle Raven
9 | ENGAGING THE African American CHURCH IN GLOBAL MISSIONS BY RECRUITING African American YOUNG ADULTS FOR MISSIONS EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Linda P. Saunders
10 | FROM THE PROMISED LAND TO EGYPT: IMMIGRATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MISSION AMONG HISPANIC EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN NORTH AMERICA
Daniel A. Rodriguez
11 | THE CASE FOR MISSIONS IN ETHIOPIAN DIASPORA CHURCHES OF AMERICA
Mehari Korcho

Part Four
Church on Mission in Practical Perspective
12 | APATHEISM: ENGAGING THE WESTERN PANTHEON OF SPIRITUAL INDIFFERENCE
K. Robert Beshears
13 | PRE-FIELD MISSIONARY ASSESSMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOCAL CHURCH
Nathan Garth
14 | A MISSIONARY’S RELATIONSHIP TO SENDING CHURCHES: COMMUNAL AND EXCHANGE DIMENSIONS
David R. Dunaetz
15 | EDUCATING TODAY’S PASTORS TOWARD AN APOSTOLIC IMAGINATION
J. D. Payne