Mission Spirituality and Authentic Discipleship

Wonsuk Ma

• Publisher: Regnum
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781908355249
• eBook ISBN: 9781912343287
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

This book argues for the primacy of spirituality in the practice of mission. Since God is the primary agent of mission and God works through the power of the Holy spirit, it is through openness to the Spirit that mission finds its true character and has its authentic impact.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is Professor of Theology at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana.

Andrew F. Bush is Associate Professor of Mission at Eastern University, St David’s, Pennsylvania, USA, whilst serving with the Palestinian Bible Society in the Palestinian Territories.

Tereso C. Casiño is Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Studies at Gardner-Webb University (School of Divinity) in North Carolina, USA, and serves as Chair of North America Diaspora Educators’ Forum--Global Diaspora Network. He previously taught at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, South Korea.

Kim-kwong Chan is Executive Secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council.

Valentin Kozhuharov is currently a freelance lecturer in Christian education and in Missiology in Plovdiv University (Bulgaria) and tutor in Missiology at the Institute for Mission Studies, Budapest (Hungary). For seven years (2002-2009) he has been missionary and lecturer in the Department for religious education and catechization of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Chul-shin Lee is Senior Pastor, Youngnak Presbyterian Church, Seoul, South Korea.

Younghoon Lee is Senior Pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea.

Wonsuk Ma is Executive Director and David Yonggi Cho Research Tutor of Global Christianity, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Nicta Makiika is General Secretary of the Organisation of African Instituted Churches, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Clemens Mendonca is Executive Secretary for the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences.

Moses Morales is the former Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for Ecumenical Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Bolivia.

Matthews A. Ojo is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Michael P.K. Okyerefo is a Roman Catholic priest and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana.

Kenneth R. Ross is Church of Scotland minister at Netherlorn and Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University School of Divinity. From 2001 to 2010 he chaired the Scottish ‘Towards 2010’ Council.

Rosauro Lopez Sandoval is a Bolivian missiologist, teaching at the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo

David Emmanuel Singh is Research Tutor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) in Oxford, UK.

Serah Wambua is East African Regional Advisor and Team Leader for Economic Empowerment for the Church Mission Society – Africa.

REGNUM EDINBURGH CENTENARY SERIES

David A. Kerr, Kenneth R. Ross (Eds)

Mission Then and Now

2009 / 978-1-870345-73-6 / 343pp (paperback)

2009 / 978-1-870345-76-7 / 343pp (hardback)

No one can hope to fully understand the modern Christian missionary movement without engaging substantially with the World Missionary Conference, held at Edinburgh in 1910. This book is the first to systematically examine the eight Commissions which reported to Edinburgh 1910 and gave the conference much of its substance and enduring value. It will deepen and extend the reflection being stimulated by the upcoming centenary and will kindle the missionary imagination for 2010 and beyond.

Daryl M. Balia, Kirsteen Kim (Eds)

Witnessing to Christ Today

2010 / 978-1-870345-77-4 / 301pp (hardback)

This volume, the second in the Edinburgh 2010 series, includes reports of the nine main study groups working on different themes for the celebration of the centenary of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910. Their collaborative work brings together perspectives that are as inclusive as possible of contemporary world Christianity and helps readers to grasp what it means in different contexts to be ‘witnessing to Christ today’.

Claudia Währisch-Oblau, Fidon Mwombeki (Eds)

Mission Continues

Global Impulses for the 21^st Century

2010 / 978-1-870345-82-8 / 271pp (hardback)

In May 2009, 35 theologians from Asia, Africa and Europe met in Wuppertal, Germany, for a consultation on mission theology organized by the United Evangelical Mission: Communion of 35 Churches in Three Continents. The aim was to participate in the 100th anniversary of the Edinburgh conference through a study process and reflect on the challenges for mission in the 21st century. This book brings together these papers written by experienced practitioners from around the world.

Brian Woolnough and Wonsuk Ma (Eds)

Holistic Mission

God’s Plan for God’s People

2010 / 978-1-870345-85-9 / 268pp (hardback)

Holistic mission, or integral mission, implies God is concerned with the whole person, the whole community, body, mind and spirit. This book discusses the meaning of the holistic gospel, how it has developed, and implications for the church. It takes a global, eclectic approach, with 19 writers, all of whom have much experience in, and commitment to, holistic mission. It addresses

critically and honestly one of the most exciting, and challenging, issues facing the church today. To be part of God’s plan for God’s people, the church must take holistic mission to the world.

Kirsteen Kim and Andrew Anderson (Eds)

Mission Today and Tomorrow

2010 / 978-1-870345-91-0 / 450pp (hardback)

There are moments in our lives when we come to realise that we are participating in the triune God’s mission. If we believe the church to be as sign and symbol of the reign of God in the world, then we are called to witness to Christ today by sharing in God’s mission of love through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. We can all participate in God’s transforming and reconciling mission of love to the whole creation.

Tormod Engelsviken, Erling Lundeby and Dagfinn Solheim (Eds)

The Church Going Glocal

Mission and Globalisation

2011 / 978-1-870345-93-4 / 262pp (hardback)

The New Testament church is… universal and local at the same time. The universal, one and holy apostolic church appears in local manifestations. Missiologically speaking… the church can take courage as she faces the increasing impact of globalisation on local communities today. Being universal and concrete, the church is geared for the simultaneous challenges of the glocal and local.

Marina Ngurusangzeli Behera (Ed)

Interfaith Relations after One Hundred Years

Christian Mission among Other Faiths

2011 / 978-1-870345-96-5 / 338pp (hardback)

The essays of this book reflect not only the acceptance and celebration of pluralism within India but also by extension an acceptance as well as a need for unity among Indian Christians of different denominations. The essays were presented and studied at a preparatory consultation on Study Theme II: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths at the United Theological College, India July 2009.

Lalsangkima Pachuau and Knud Jørgensen (Eds)

Witnessing to Christ in a Pluralistic Age

Christian Mission among Other Faiths

2011 / 978-1-870345-95-8 / 277pp (hardback)

In a world where plurality of faiths is increasingly becoming a norm of life, insights on the theology of religious plurality are needed to strengthen our understanding of our own faith and the faith of others. Even though religious diversity is not new, we are seeing an upsurge in interest on the theologies of religion among all Christian confessional traditions. It can be claimed that no other issue in Christian mission is more important and more difficult than the theologies of religions.

Beth Snodderly and A Scott Moreau (Eds)

Evangelical Frontier Mission

Perspectives on the Global Progress of the Gospel

2011 / 978-1-870345-98-9 / 312pp (hardback)

This important volume demonstrates that 100 years after the Wor...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: The Spiritual Dimension of Mission
• ‘The Promise is for You and Your Children’: Pentecostal Spirituality, Mission and Discipleship in Africa
• Doing Mission at the Margins of Society: Harnessing the Resources of Local Visions
• Spirituality and Historic Mission Christianity in Africa: Ghanaization in Roman Catholicism
• African Spirituality, Socio-Political Experience and Mission
• Mission Spirituality and Authentic Discipleship: An African Reflection
• A Mission To and From the Youth
• The Dream of Unity in Bolivia
• The Kenosis of Christ and His Redefinition of Nationalism as a Way Towards Reconciliation in Israel/Palestine
• Mission in an Orthodox Christian Context: Witnessing to Christ as Pastoral Responsibility
• Mission According to the Catholic Church in Asia: A New Way of Being Church
• Sunder Singh and NV Tilak: Lessons for Missiology from Twentieth Century India
• Mission in the Context of Filipino Folk Spirituality: Bahala Na as a Case in Point
• The Back to Jerusalem Movement: Mission Movement of the Christian Community in Mainland China
• The Holy Spirit and Mission Spirituality: The Case of Yoido Full Gospel Church
• Spirituality and Christian Mission: The Journey of Youngnak Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
• Grace Korean Church, California, USA: Mission from the Margins with Little Notice (Of Course!)
• Conclusion: Spirituality as the Beating Heart of Mission
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Back Cover