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Pentecostal Perspectives on Holistic Church Mission Today
Waldrop, Richard E.
Waldrop, Richard E.
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"All mission begins with and emanates from the Triune God. In this way the missionary character of God is revealed. Our God is a missionary God and so the life of the Church must be characterized as missionary existence.1 Christian faith is intrinsically missionary,2 or as the Swiss theologian, Emil Brunner, has said, "the Church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning."3 Having made these foundational statements, additional questions always arise concerning the particularities of Christian mission. The "why" and the "how" of mission, as an ecclesial and human enterprise, rest upon the missionary character of the Triune God. My own reflections on this theme are the result of more than thirty years of relationships and ministry among the peoples of Latin America and involvement in the life and mission of the Pentecostal churches of the continent in contexts of violence, marginalization, poverty, and oppression."
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2007
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