MISSIOLOGY

Missiology



Missiology

Introduction

At that time, his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens."

4000 churches will close this year, 85% of all American churches are stagnated or Dying and only 50% of the churches have seen only 1 person that came to the faith last year. 1500 pastors are newly unemployed ever month.

We live in the age of earth quakes and many of us aware the type, but the most predominant earthquake that we are facing is the shift from Christendom to post Christendom. In Christendom, the churches are the most pious place where people come and worship for the deeds and eternal life and god missionary nature. From time onwards, we lost the theology of this concept away from the mission of God. As god sent Jesus to the world, we also are sent to the world to join Gods mission. As the post Christendom appears, and we lost sight of our mission.

Theoretically, the study of missiology is the study of mission of god. When the world is shaken the safest building collapses revering the power of one. Shifting before the rubble we ask our self that is the challenge simply that of rebuilding or is it deeper or something more profound? What if there are more cracks still hidden from us? This earthquake is not just revealing the abolishment of churches and faith. It revealed that the humanity within us had died and has lead to the ways which is leaving the cracks within the behavior of the person.

The current meeting and the crossing of cultures and religions, at overall, is perhaps the greatest challenge in human history has had to present. Comparative statistics that are surfacing in the news is a reality unstoppable. There are towns where more than half of school children come from other culture or religion, while at the same time, it is expected that in coming years, that half will become the majority of the population originating.

Etymology

The term Missiology has been defined by various methods and critics as "the science of intercultural communication of the Christian faith". It can also be defined as the par excellence of the academic discipline underpinning the task of world evangelization, and the field of study that investigates applicable records and data on the origins and the biblical story of the expansion of the Christian movement of anthropological principles and techniques for further developments.

History

Missiology is considered as a science, which should be documented as an applied science. The underlying dynamics of the missiological process begins with an actual field outside a church or mission, in which their problems, successes and failures are clearly known, but it ends with the application of the missiological perspective to this field.

Missiology was born as a theological discipline in the last quarter of 19th century. For many years, the work of the, missionaries has to studied the religions and regions, write dictionaries and travel ...