MI102 Current Issues in Missions
Overview
In Current Issues in Missions (MI102), Tim Sisk discusses the changing world situation since the beginning of the Modern Missions Movement in the mid-nineteenth century, and introduces the new mission opportunities and approaches these changes have created. He explores the impact and implications of globalization and the shift of the “Christian center” from Europe and European derivative cultures to the southern hemisphere. Sisk also introduces contemporary debates regarding appropriate contextualization, the relationship between evangelism and humanitarian relief, and issues of justice.
Top Highlights
“Contextualization is attempting to communicate the gospel in word and deed, and to establish the Church in ways that make sense to people within their local cultural context, presenting Christ in such a way that it meets the people’s deepest needs and penetrates their worldview, thus allowing them to follow Christ and remain within their own culture.” (source)
“John Griffith writes, ‘The cheapest mission is the mission which keeps its missionaries the longest and gets out of them the best service which they’re capable of rendering.’” (source)
“Don’t make short-term missions just about one week or ten days or two weeks. Have a three-month period before the trip where you’re doing training; then have a nine-month period after the trip where you’re doing follow-up.” (source)
“in our [lives], it takes that kind of long-term exposure to see significant and meaningful change” (source)
“However, hell is not eternal, but instead, it’s temporary” (source)
- Title: MI102 Current Issues in Missions
- Author: Timothy Sisk
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Education › Missions; Missions
- Resource ID: LLS:MI102SISK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:34:17Z
Dr. Timothy Sisk, professor and chair of world missions and evangelism at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, has been in vocational ministry for nearly 30 years. He specializes in church planting, history of missions, and global theology.
Dr. Sisk and his wife, Donna, served as missionaries for 14 years in Japan and Bolivia. He also coauthored The Third Wave Movement and Missions Today and coedited Reflections on Urban Mission for the Twenty-First Century.