The Third Force in Missions
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The Third Force in Missions

A Pentecostal Contribution to Contemporary Mission Theology

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The Third Force in Missions

A Pentecostal Contribution to Contemporary Mission Theology

About this book

The Third Force in Missions challenges readers to recognize the indispensable role of the Holy Spirit as power-for-mission. It confronts the Western mentality that ignores the miraculous in its missions strategy and the global Pentecostal movement. Paul Pomerville suggests that such activity—prompted and controlled by the Spirit—is key to fruitful biblical missions.

When The Third Force in Missions was first published in 1985, Paul Pomerville sought to draw attention to the Pentecostal contribution to missions. At that time, he argued there was an "information gap" regarding the size of this movement, in spite of "two waves" of worldwide Pentecostal renewal. He argued that this gap existed because of evangelical bias against Pentecostalism, bias against "charismatics" in mainline churches, ethnocentrism toward Pentecostals in the developing world, and faulty reporting.

Thirty years later, Pomerville once again argues the importance of the global Pentecostal movement, seeking to correct the ongoing tunnel vision of world missions programs, which since the Protestant Reformation have tended to ignore the Holy Spirit's work in today's missions. In this book, Pomerville exposes the serious methodological and theological flaws of such a one-sided position.

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Table of contents

  1. COPYRIGHT
  2. FOREWORD BY ARTHUR F. GLASSER (1985)
  3. FOREWORD BY WILLIAM W. MENZIES (1985)
  4. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1985)
  5. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION (2015)
  6. INTRODUCTION: MISSIONS FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE
  7. PART ONE PENTECOSTALISM, DISTORTION OR CORRECTION?
  8. 1. An Emerging ā€œThird Forceā€
  9. 2. A Renewal Movement
  10. 3. A Correction of a Western Distortion
  11. 4. An Experience with the Spirit
  12. PART TWO PENTECOSTALISM, A MISSIONS CONTRIBUTION
  13. 5. The Pentecostal and Mission Strategy
  14. 6. The Pentecostal and Contemporary Mission Issues
  15. 7. The Pentecostal and the Kingdom of God
  16. EPILOGUE (2015)
  17. APPENDIX
  18. REFERENCES