RT Article
T1 Mission as Prophetic Dialogue: A Case Study from Colombia
JF Missiology
VO 42
IS 3
SP 295
OP 308
A1 Lamberty, Kim Marie
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777063272
AB Over the last 100 years we have seen dramatic changes in the ways that Christian churches have approached mission. In the United States, mission is now dominated by activities such as short-term immersion trips, church-to-church global partnerships, young adult volunteer programs, or lay mission programs that send individuals or families for temporary assignments. In this context of rapid change, Steve Bevans and Roger Schroeder published their groundbreaking work, Constants in Context, which provides guidelines for mission—summarized by the term prophetic dialogue—that acknowledge that Christianity is by its nature mission-oriented, and that the nature of our mission must take into account centuries of wisdom and at the same time modify itself with changing times. Based on a case study in Colombia, this article proposes that the practice of international accompaniment in zones of violent conflict is an example of prophetic dialogue in practice, and thus can serve as a model for other twenty-first-century mission activities.
K1 Relationship
K1 conflict zones
K1 Solidarity
K1 prophetic dialogue
K1 short-term mission
K1 Accompaniment
DO 10.1177/0091829613498186