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Dr. Ed Stetzer explains what it means to be missional in this 30-second video.
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Increasingly, ministry in North America is an exercise in crossing cultures. As the culture moves its own way with everyone “doing right in his own eyes,” the church and the culture look increasingly divergent. Thus, Christians are left with a challenging task: how do we faithfully proclaim a clear biblical gospel in the shifting sands of culture? It would be arrogant to think our culture different from all the others where the gospel is preached. For two millennia, Christians have addressed cultural questions. Honestly, it has not always gone well. In every cultural encounter, some go too far and many don’t go far enough.
Thus, in the Re:Train course "Missional Missiology," we will be asking missiological questions from a missional framework. The title of the class gets at the issues. First, we will look at things from a “missional” perspective. In other words, we will seek to join Jesus in his mission. That will require us to understand things like the mission of God, the Kingdom of Christ, the work of the church, and the cultural context. The last point, the cultural context, gets at the missiological question. Missiology asks, “How can we most effectively be engaged in mission here, now, in this place and culture?” We stand at a crucial time in the North American church, but the answers are always the same— a biblically faithful culture engaging and transforming its culture for the glory of God, the redemption of men and women, and the advance of his Kingdom.
Dr. Ed Stetzer teaches a course on Missional Missiology at the Resurgence Training Center. For more info, go to ReTrain.org.
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Speaking at the recent Acts 29 Quarterly in St. Louis, leading missiologist and friend of the Resurgence Ed Stetzer shared collected data regarding the younger unchurched demographic, shedding light on the tension between their desire for spirituality and their resistance to formal involvement with the church. Based on his new book, Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them, he discussed how this data can be used to bridge the gap and bring the younger unchurched into the body.
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The Resurgence is a movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the Gospel by staying culturally accessible and Biblically faithful.
