A Church Built to Last? Part Two

Part One of this topic pointed out that a major problem where regional churches have died (such as in North Africa and Central Asia) was due to a lack of enculturation. The church remained as a church of outsiders. In North Africa, the church was Roman, rather than North African. In Central Asia, the church …

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A Church Built to Last? Part One

Why does the Church in some parts of the world grows, while in other parts dies? As noted by Dr. Philip Jenkins, author of "The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-- and How it Died", we need to develop a Theology of Extinction. …

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