Diagnosing church health across cultures: A case study of Turkish Roma (Millet) churches in Bulgaria

Much missionary work is focused on helping churches become healthy and mature. In doing so, missionaries face the challenge of contextualization. The local people’s ideals and images of church usually reflect different emphases than those of the missionary’s home culture. Indicators that have been u...

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Authors: Hibbert, Richard Y. (Author) ; Hibbert, Evelyn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Missiology
Year: 2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-256
IxTheo Classification:KBK Europe (East)
NBN Ecclesiology
RJ Mission; missiology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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