In recent years, the term “missional” has become popularized in an attempt to recenter Christianity in the United States on the importance of mission: however, as many Christian leaders discovered, it takes more than popularization of a term to change direction. This dissertatio…
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This thesis is an exploration of Bonhoeffer's religionless Christianity which seeks to flesh out the important contribution that his theology has to make to the church and its current missional discussion. Today the western mainline church is experiencing significant changes and…
Awareness is the precursor to change. This research project seeks to raise awareness and the significance of the foundational elements of missional church life at King of Glory Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, Virginia. It does so by first establishing the foundational elements …
The project director serves as the high school pastor at Ingleside Baptist Church (IBC) in Macon, Georgia. The project director identified the need for families at IBC to live missionally by making disciples both within the home and with the family of others far from God. Thus, …
In Jesus’ Steps is the motto of the United Methodist Young Adult Fellowship (UMYAF) in the Philippines. Jesus did most of his work during his "UMYAF" years. To always be in Jesus' steps is to exemplify His life. UMYAF lives a vision to empower young adults as world-changing disc…
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of select members of Living Stones Church, in Katy, Texas in regard to missional living within the context of multidiverse and multi-cultural suburban neighborhoods. Participants in this study encou…
The California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church exhibits a faster rate of decline than the already declining Protestant church in the United States. American consumerism and the professionalization of the church reveal a broken ecclesiology and missiology.…
In the same manner that the first-century church had to shift from traditional Judaism to a radical spiritual imagination that included Gentiles, the contemporary American church must shift from paradigms of church rooted in medieval and modern forms of Christendom to new ideals…
Denmark is considered a Christian country. The Christian heritage is strong, and three quarters of the population are members of the Danish Lutheran Church. The Danish culture is, however, characterized by a secular mindset with rationalism, individualism, and an absence of fait…
It is God’s work and our mission to be intentional about reaching those in our world, to bless others with the blessing that we have received in Christ. For ValleyView Alliance Church (VVAC), this means reaching out to the released time students who attend Bible Adventure in its…
The purpose of this project was to discover what motivates and sustains church engagement in neighborhood revitalization. A growing awareness in popular church literature demonstrates that outreach ministries practiced by local churches have not only been ineffective in bringing…