Church And Mission Case Study
III. Church and Mission
1. Introduction:
Having established the biblical theology of mission in previous chapter, this chapter aims to look at the relationship of the Church and Mission in regard to her missionary obligation. Firstly, it establishes how mission is firmly rooted in ecclesial reality. Secondly, it presents a brief historical overview of church’s mission practice to survey that how Church has been fulfilling her missionary obligation by employing different methods from post-apostolic time to present day. Against this background it moves on to define the essential features of the missionary obligation of the church as developed by Michael Nazir-Ali, these features will serve as a criteria in order to evaluate the mission practice …show more content…
With this methodology Christianity penetrated into the Arab world in the East and Brittany, Scotland, and Wales in the West.’ Monks, particularly from Britain, became the missionaries of the medieval church. They went out as fearless soldiers of the Cross to found new monasteries, and these became centers from which whole tribes were won to Christianity. Historian Mark A. Noll observes ‘the missionary expansion of Christianity was unthinkable apart from the activity of monks.’ Unfortunately, over the time tensions arose when some wanted a life of service, while others wanted …show more content…
Evangelism (or evangelization, that suggest more of process than an event) is ‘a necessary aspect of mission and its crown because in the course of it we are pointing beyond ourselves to the one who is the source of our missionary involvement.’ ‘True evangelism, then is not just about making people aware of their shortcomings ad bringing them to repentance, but it is also about that assurance that springs from faith in what God has revealed, and trust in the one who has given us this knowledge of his purpose for us’. This brings forth most crucial questions, are Pakistani churches crowing their mission engagement with evangelism? Are they conscious of evangelistic dimension? If so, how are they adding evangelistic aspect to various
1. Introduction:
Having established the biblical theology of mission in previous chapter, this chapter aims to look at the relationship of the Church and Mission in regard to her missionary obligation. Firstly, it establishes how mission is firmly rooted in ecclesial reality. Secondly, it presents a brief historical overview of church’s mission practice to survey that how Church has been fulfilling her missionary obligation by employing different methods from post-apostolic time to present day. Against this background it moves on to define the essential features of the missionary obligation of the church as developed by Michael Nazir-Ali, these features will serve as a criteria in order to evaluate the mission practice …show more content…
With this methodology Christianity penetrated into the Arab world in the East and Brittany, Scotland, and Wales in the West.’ Monks, particularly from Britain, became the missionaries of the medieval church. They went out as fearless soldiers of the Cross to found new monasteries, and these became centers from which whole tribes were won to Christianity. Historian Mark A. Noll observes ‘the missionary expansion of Christianity was unthinkable apart from the activity of monks.’ Unfortunately, over the time tensions arose when some wanted a life of service, while others wanted …show more content…
Evangelism (or evangelization, that suggest more of process than an event) is ‘a necessary aspect of mission and its crown because in the course of it we are pointing beyond ourselves to the one who is the source of our missionary involvement.’ ‘True evangelism, then is not just about making people aware of their shortcomings ad bringing them to repentance, but it is also about that assurance that springs from faith in what God has revealed, and trust in the one who has given us this knowledge of his purpose for us’. This brings forth most crucial questions, are Pakistani churches crowing their mission engagement with evangelism? Are they conscious of evangelistic dimension? If so, how are they adding evangelistic aspect to various