Evangelism Challenges the Church's Identity
The gospel of Christ has spread to hundreds of linguistic and cultural communities. Christian churches have come face to face with an extraordinarily positive but nevertheless perplexing problem: Can the churches find the common core message of the holistic gospel or will the actual content of faith...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
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International review of mission
Year: 2017, Volume: 106, Issue: 2, Pages: 423-435 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society RH Evangelization; Christian media RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Ends of the Earth
B Word and Deed B Reconciliation B Evangelism B Witness B Christendom B Identity B Conversion B Eschatology B Mission (international law |
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| Summary: | The gospel of Christ has spread to hundreds of linguistic and cultural communities. Christian churches have come face to face with an extraordinarily positive but nevertheless perplexing problem: Can the churches find the common core message of the holistic gospel or will the actual content of faith become relativized into the interpretation of interpretations? Despite the many different definitions of evangelism/evangelization, evangelism always leads to consideration of the basic questions of faith: its profound understanding and its reception. Evangelism involves the questions of what I believe or believe in, and of what I commit to. In the midst of the constant flow of information and the hectic tempo of life, evangelism challenges the church again and again to reconsider how the gospel can be expressed compactly, but in a rich, understandable, and true-to-life way. In the ecumenical discussion, the concept of witness as a form of evangelism is becoming increasingly important, because it comprises all the essential dimensions of the whole gospel. Evangelism challenges churches and their members to boldly bear witness by word and deed to Jesus Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12195 |