Jesus, Rio de Janeiro (Photo credit: kaysha) Occasionally, I would contribute to Answers.com. When I do, it is because I am really bored. This is one of my better answers I guess. This is how I answered it: Question: What is the Impact of Globalization on the Contemporary Christian Mission? A. The "Southern Shift" of …
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I have often said that if I had not been raised in a Christian family and raised in a Christian church I would never have become a Christian. Now don't get me wrong, I would not have become a Buddhist, Hindu, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, or anything else either. I also doubt I would become a …
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Two quoted passages from "Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church" by Reggie McNeal. Quote #1 . Page 93. "The jig is up! Evidence of this is everywhere and growing both outside and inside the church culture. The program-driven church has produced a brand of Christianity that is despised, not just ignored, by people …
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Good scholarship of the term “apostolos” shows that the term appears to best fit what we now call missionaries. It should not be thought of as strictly a position of the distant past. However, it also should not be viewed as a church office in any period of time, as the term is now used …
According to the cultural anthropologist Bronislav Malinowski, referring to a form of communication, "Phatic communion serves to establish bonds of personal union between people brought together by the mere need of companionship and does not serve any purpose of communicating ideas." This is sometimes called "small talk", chit-chat, and terms and expressions of courtesy and …
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It has been a hobby of Christians to set a date for the return of Christ. Even non-Christian groups such as "Jehovah's Witness" fall prey to this lure. There is a long history of this. The church of Thessalonica in the New Testament had members who were so sure of the imminent return of Christ …
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