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Karaktereienskappe van die Missionale Kerk

Die missionale kerk is 'n kerk wat deur God gestuur is.

Missionale kerk het omtrent 'n "buzz" woord geword. Almal praat daaroor, party identifiseer hulle-self daarmee, ander is baie skepties daaroor. Miskien is die groot hindernis waarvoor ons tans te staan kom die feit dat baie lidmate en selfs predikante nie regtig weet wat missionaal beteken nie. Daarom het ons besluit om 'n kort bondige, eenvoudige dokument uit te bring waarin ons die karaktereienskappe van 'n missionale ker beskryf.

RESPONDING TO THE NEW WEST

Lesslie Newbigin’s sharp critique of western culture, offered in a relatively brief but incisively penetrating publication, The Other Side of 1984, came as a shock to many who read it for the first time in the middle of the 1980’s. He seemed to encapsulate what many had been feeling but had been unable to articulate.

IN WESTERN EUROPE A GAP HAS GROWN BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND THE GENERAL CULTURE. THIS IS WHAT WE USUALLY CALL ‘SECULARIZATION’.[1] IT RESULTS IN THE MARGINALIZATION OF THE CHURCH, REPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE, AN INCREASING ALIENATION OF OUR CULTURE FROM ITS CHRISTIAN PAST, AND A GREAT DEAL OF TIMIDITY WITHIN THE CHURCH. WE ARE FACING A CRISIS OF MISSION IN EUROPE.

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