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2019년에 하나님께서 동서 선교 연구 개발원에 많은 은혜를 베푸시고 여러 사역을 할 수 있도록 인도하셨습니다. 태국의 치앙마이를 중심으로 2019년 저희 선교 센터가행한 프로그램 중에 몇 가지를 앞에서 간략히 소개한 후 저희가 실시한 모든 프로그램을 순서대로 나열하겠습니다.
선교 논문/글쓰기 강좌
치앙마이에 거주하는 한국 선교사들을 대상으로 일상의 글에서 선교 박사 논문에 이르기까지 어떻게 하면 효과적으로 글을 …
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RITUAL AS WORSHIP: TOWARDS AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN ASIA
Worship in Asia should not be tied to assumptions and values, imposed from the outside. Rather Christian worship in Asia should utilize rituals intended to ensure meaningful worship empowered by the Holy Spirit who enables people to be who God created them to be in the pluralist contexts Asian Christians find themselves. Beyond worship, the …
EDITORIAL: MISSION CHALLENGES PAST AND PRESENT
“Missiology is the area of practical theology that investigate the mandate, message, and mission of the Christian church, especially the nature of missionary work.” Christians who are commissioned to implement Christ’s Great Commission must understand not only the message of the gospel they preach, but also the environment the message is to be preached and …
MATTEO RICCI: AN ITALIAN JESUIT PRIEST WITH A HEART FOR THE ORIENT
ABSTRACT
Matteo Ricci was born on October 16, 1552 in Macerata, Italy just a few months before the death of Francis Xavier. He joined the Society of Jesus on August 15, 1571. He became burdened for mission in the Orient under the influence of Alessadro Valignani. This burden grew into love and service for the Chinese …
PROBLEM-SOLVING IN MISSIONS
Missionary work has always had its fair share of problems, and so this article covers the application of general problem-solving skills in missions and draws on my 25 years experience relating to technology in missions and a decade prior to that of more general missions experience.
The article’s focus is not so much on prayer, worship, …
FILLING THE GAP: EARLY MODERN REFORMED MISSIONS BEFORE THE 1800s
INTRODUCTION
Contributions made by the Reformed Church are inconsistently portrayed in missions history. Historical researches on Reformed accomplishments concerning missions are either sparsely available or non-existent before the 1800s. Instead, there is a time gap between the Protestant Reformation to the arrival of the Moravians and the German Pietists from the University of Halle. This is …
RITUAL AS WORSHIP: TOWARDS AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN ASIA
Worship in Asia should not be tied to assumptions and values, imposed from the outside. Rather Christian worship in Asia should utilize rituals intended to ensure meaningful worship empowered by the Holy Spirit who enables people to be who God created them to be in the pluralist contexts Asian Christians find themselves. Beyond worship, the …
KOREAN MISSION CHALLENGES IN THE PHILIPPINES and Opportunities for Korean-Filipino Mission Partnerships
The Korean missionaries started coming to the Philippines as early as late 70’s. They came with enthusiastic hearts to evangelize, plant churches and train pastors and missionaries. I give thanks to God for the sacrificial labors and generous investments that Korean churches, mission agencies and missionaries have made in advancing the Great Commission in the …
MINISTERS AS SERVANT LEADERS “DIAKONOS” IN SECOND CORINTHIANS
Biblical leadership is servant leadership. There is nothing more inconsistent than to separate the concept of Christian leadership from servanthood vis-à-vis the ministers of God/Christ whether in the OT or in the NT. The Bible clearly portrays leaders as servants—hence, servant leadership. This is made clearer by Jesus himself, who said: “The kings of the …
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DOING MISSIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES
CULTURAL ORIENTATION IN MANAGEMENT
Culture can be defined in many ways. One way, as Brislin elucidates, can be explained as ‘an identifiable group with shared beliefs and experiences, feelings of worth and value attached to those experiences, and a shared interest in a common historical background.’
In working cross-culturally, it is evident that people who were raised …