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Broadly speaking, missiology is "an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into Christian mission or missions that utilizes theological, historical, and various social scientific methods." [ 2 ] It has historically focused on the missionary and evangelistic work of Protestant and Catholic denominations from Europe and North America into other ...
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism, in the name of the Christian faith. [1] Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries. [2] Sometimes individuals are sent and are called missionaries, and historically may have been based in mission stations. When groups ...
Some consider evangelism to be proselytising, which is protected in the United States but illegal in some countries, [31] while others where it is suppressed argue it is merely free speech. [32] [33] [34] The fact that evangelicals speak about their faith in public is sometimes criticized by the media and it is often associated with proselytism ...
The Missional Challenge workshop also notes that for any Christian, Mission Living covers many areas of life including, to seize Christ’s mission as a personal goal, to commit to proclaim the gospel to a specific geographical area, to influence non-believers towards Christ and to motivate other Christians.
The Lausanne Covenant is a July 1974 religious manifesto promoting active worldwide Christian evangelism. [1] One of the most influential documents in modern evangelicalism , it was written at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne , Switzerland, where it was adopted by 2,300 evangelicals in attendance.
The International Missionary Council (IMC) was an ecumenical Protestant Christian missionary organization established in 1921, [1] which in 1961, merged with the World Council of Churches (WCC), becoming the WCC's Division of World Mission and Evangelism. [2]
The Evangelical Methodist Church (EMC) is a Christian denomination in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.The denomination reported 399 churches in the United States, Mexico, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Philippines and several European and African nations in 2018, and a total of 34,656 members worldwide (with about 7,300 members in around 80 churches in the United ...
Integral mission or holistic mission describes an understanding of Christian mission that embraces both evangelism and social responsibility. With origins in Latin American, integral mission has influenced a significant number of Protestants around the world through the Lausanne Movement .