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Contemporary America is battling with urbanization, pluralism, relativism, globalism, individualism, narcissism, consumerism, post-modernism, post-Christendom, among other things.  What does this say to the church?  What is our missional responsibility and calling by God?  How do we best reach this culture, by accommodation or by living counter-cultural?  Be able to interact with all of these things.
  
 
==Recommended Reading==
 
==Recommended Reading==
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==
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<I>Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America</I> by Darrell L. Guder
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<I>The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society</I>
  
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<I>Foolishness to the Greeks</I> by Lesslie Newbigin
  
 
==[[Missionary Work of the Church]]==
 
==[[Missionary Work of the Church]]==
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f.      [[Missionary connection with Monasticism]]
 
f.      [[Missionary connection with Monasticism]]
 
g.      [[Post-Christian America]]
 
g.      [[Post-Christian America]]
h.      [[Re-engineering from the misssion field backwards]]
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h.      [[Re-engineering from the mission field backwards]]
 
i.      [[Missiology and ecclesiology]]
 
i.      [[Missiology and ecclesiology]]
 
j.      [[Missional Implications of Technology]]
 
j.      [[Missional Implications of Technology]]

Latest revision as of 03:59, 22 May 2019

Contemporary America is battling with urbanization, pluralism, relativism, globalism, individualism, narcissism, consumerism, post-modernism, post-Christendom, among other things. What does this say to the church? What is our missional responsibility and calling by God? How do we best reach this culture, by accommodation or by living counter-cultural? Be able to interact with all of these things.

Recommended Reading

Resources

Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America by Darrell L. Guder

The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society

Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin

Missionary Work of the Church

a. How gospel has been passed from one language, tribe, nation to another b. Basic principles of cross-cultural communication c. Mission Strategies d. Personal relational evangelism and apologetics e. Modern Missionary Movements f. Missionary connection with Monasticism g. Post-Christian America h. Re-engineering from the mission field backwards i. Missiology and ecclesiology j. Missional Implications of Technology k. Church Planting

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