Missionaries - Changing With The Times
Another good article by Barney Zwartz in the Melbourne Age.
Rather than spending their entire lives spruiking the gospel in far-flung places, the new missionaries are often ordinary Australians on a working holiday. Barney Zwartz reports.
Mission remains a vital concept to the church, but its shape has changed irrevocably. Today's missionary is more likely to be a professional offering specialist help to overseas churches. Or someone with an ordinary job who spends his or her annual leave on a short-term placement. Or — numerically speaking — today's missionary is even more likely to be Indian, Korean, African or Chinese.
Not for decades have missionaries sought to impose Western theology and church practice. "We are going back to the core model of the gospel rather than trying to transplant our model to them," Irwin says.
(It's worth creating a log-in to read some of these Age articles - once you've done it, your computer seems to remember - something to do with "cookies"??)
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