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| Editorial Comment…. What kind of mission do you think? |
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The Gospel is Jesus Himself who is the Word of God among us. It is not something about Jesus, but Jesus Himself. When we, those who reflect on the life of Jesus, reside in an unreached community, the incarnation of Jesus continues.
The Pharisees and the teachers of the law who had much knowledge about God didn’t understand what the Gospel was. The Gospel is not a clear knowledge about salvation, but Jesus who restores our relationship with God. Much knowledge about God doesn’t guarantee any intimacy in the relationship. The Gospel has its intrinsic nature that is relational. The good relationship with God can be verified not by the thoughts or the amount of knowledge we have, but by our deeds demonstrating forgiveness and love to others. Thus the meaning of being the witnesses about Jesus is how we live our relational lives among the unreached peoples. This should be the basic foundation on our missional understandings, efforts and motivations.
Rationalism and positivism prevailed throughout the Western colonial period. Thus the missionary effort was commonly made by polemic and apologetic debate resulting in religious competition. This attitude seems to be prevailing even today. The Gospel itself is always the same but the form or system that carry it may vary according to the culture and the contemporary paradigm. Paul Hiebert says we now live in post-postmodern mission era. What kind of mission do you think in this era?
In this bulletin, you may get some clues to know how you can help the emerging faith communities in terms of education or teaching resulting in transformational change of their lives. Some key words among others we should keep in mind are “inductive way of doing”, “creativity”, and “insider perspective”, etc.
David Lim, who will be serving as the director for the Asian Mission Leader’s Forum (AMLF) 2010, is sharing his heart as an Asian leader in accelerating God’s harvest by emphasizing on the global house church movements and insider movements, and call for the active participation of many Asian leaders to this newly formed Asian dynamics, i.e. AMLF and ASFM (Asia Society for Frontier Mission) 2010 hosted by AFMI with the cooperation of USCWM.
Inductive Bible study is introduced as a key tool we should apply not only for our own daily spiritual life but also for the training of the followers of Jesus in any cultures. BG gives us some tips to understand and apply the inductive Bible study. Kevin Higgins, who serves as the executive director of the Global Teams, has developed an inductive Bible study
package called “CATALYST” that can be used in any different cultures. You can understand the importance of the inductive Bible study and do practices with it.
Chong Kim is talking about the critical importance of creativity to empower others, that must be related to andragogy rather than pedagogy in learning process, where the self-motivating /initiating is a good virtue. This is particularly meaningful as we live in constantly changing world.
I would invite you to attend the ASFM 2010 as long as you are interested in Asian dynamics in developing frontier missiology in Asian contexts and with Asian thoughts.
Those leaders who are invited to join the AMLF will surely be enjoying special fellowship with other leaders who want to share their hearts in accelerating God’s harvest among the unreached people groups and taking part in global cooperation with insider perspectives. Please find the other detailed information in this bulletin.
One more thing that is tremendously important is to equip the new workers with proper training as we desire to see the meaningful breakthroughs in the frontier mission areas. Here I recommend you to bring your workers to AFMI Training Institute. There is a specially designed training program adopting the principles described in this bulletin.
May God’s special blessings be upon you in this new year 2010.
John Kim Coordinator, AFMI
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