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Oral Discipleship

Discipleship in oral cultures employs various genres already embedded in the culture to promote worldview transformation. When this is applied in a Native American culture with my friend over a ten year period, the journey can be surprising and delightful!

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Unlocking Kingdom Innovation: Embracing Missional Imagination

In the journey of faith and service, the concept of "missional imagination" plays a pivotal role in realizing God's transformative work in our lives and communities. It encourages us to explore new horizons, listen closely to God's voice, and embark on innovative paths for the Kingdom of God. In this blog post, we will delve into several questions that can help you harness your missional imagination for Kingdom innovation.

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Financial Models for Churches

Another approach for churches that are both cash challenged along with closed/shrinking networks is to consider co-vocational pastoring. Previously, the term bi-vocational was used to describe a pastor who worked a secular job outside the church. The implication was that this was not the pastor’s vocational preference, and this was simply temporary until the church could afford a full salary. Once the church could afford a full salary, however, then the pastor would leave their secular job and work full-time for the church. The term ‘co-vocational’ challenges these assumptions.

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Missional Imagination: Kingdom Innovation in Acts

A missional imagination sees the same thing as others but things different thoughts – thoughts of the kingdom guided by the Holy Spirit. The call for a missional imagination is not new. Actually, Jesus regularly called the disciples to cultivate a missional imagination.

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Should We Drum or Listen to the Teng Nyono?

Conflicts over the Scripture and culture exist in evenly culture. The purpose of this article is to show how the underlying epistemologies of Scripture and culture affect the responses given by well-meaning Christians concerning issues of the Scripture and culture.

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John Wesley, Compassionate Entrepreneur: A Wesleyan View of Business and Entrepreneurship

This article identifies and constructs a historical and theological Wesleyan perspective of business and entrepreneurship, drawing on how Wesley viewed and used business and entrepreneurship particularly in relation to poverty in England in order to identify helpful implications, both theological and practical, for the church which seeks to engage with the issues of poverty.

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Fad or Renaissance? Misconceptions of the Orality Movement

Seventy percent of the world’s population cannot or chooses not to read! This astounding observation prompted the rise of the orality movement to help missionaries understand and reach oral learners. This article summarizes the recent orality movement by addressing questions that have arisen related to orality, such as: How far-reaching is this movement? Isn’t the orality discussion simply about storytelling and auditory learning? How do print and oral learning interact? Are there implications for Western cultures influenced by digital media? To address these questions, this article identifies six common misconceptions about the orality movement and concludes with missiological implications.

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