Missional discipleship: discerning spiritual-formation practices and goals within the missional movement
The missional church movement has emerged as a voice calling for a return to the church’s inherent missionary nature and identity. As a part of that call, “discipleship” has been identified as the key to success of the movement as well as the success of the Western church as a whole. However, “disci...
| Опубликовано в: : | Missiology |
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| Формат: | Electronic/Print Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Sage
2015
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Missiology
Год: 2015, Том: 43, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 175-194 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | CB Христианская жизнь RJ Миссионерство |
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| Итог: | The missional church movement has emerged as a voice calling for a return to the church’s inherent missionary nature and identity. As a part of that call, “discipleship” has been identified as the key to success of the movement as well as the success of the Western church as a whole. However, “discipleship” and related terminology are devoid of conceptual clarity due to terminological imprecision. To this point, no single work has identified a tangible concept of “missional discipleship,” and this lack of precision leaves missional leaders with no clear goal of spiritual formation. Without a clear goal, a clear and intentional spiritual-formation plan and process is ever elusive. When missional literature on spiritual formation is observed as a whole, however, and common themes are identified, a tangible concept of missional discipleship materializes. The purpose of this article is to identify spiritual-formation practices and goals as found within missional literature, and develop a tangible concept of “missional discipleship.” Therefore, the results of this study bring forth the following proposal: Missional discipleship is the experiential process of identity formation which results in a disciple who exhibits tangible evidence of mission, community, and obedience in his or her life. |
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| ISSN: | 0091-8296 |
| Второстепенные работы: | In: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0091829614563059 |