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The twenty-first century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and practice of mission. Where the church once rallied to go out into “the regions beyond,” Christian mission is currently required to respond and adapt to “missions around.” As a result, leaders in this field have been developing diaspora missiology to provide a missiological framework for understanding and participating in God’s redemptive mission among peoples living outside their places of origin. In this volume, experts in diaspora missiology from across the globe analyze the development of missions to migrants and add to our understanding of the contemporary church’s opportunities and responsibilities for mission amongst diaspora groups.

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	31 juillet 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783688166
Langue	English

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Welcoming the alien and stranger is not only a biblical imperative but also a major modern missiological challenge. My colleagues and I have been recently compelled to reflect contextually, and practice concretely, Christian love while encountering floods of refugees. Over half-a-million Middle Eastern migrants passed through our neighbourhood within a couple of months and continue to come daily. We have closely observed the refugee trauma as we watched the breakdown of border controls, erection of barbed wire fences and expressed solidarity with desperate peoples fleeing war and searching for places of safety and well-being. As a wholistic missiologist and original Lausanner (active participant since 1974), I warmly welcome and highly recommend this comprehensive study on a globally relevant topic as both foundational and directional. This timely volume is a missio Dei viatorum at its best, focused on diaspora from a full-fledged biblical perspective while taking into account the migrant phenomena in their global diversity.
Peter Kuzmic, PhD, Dr Theol
Distinguished Professor of World Mission and European Studies,
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
Founding Director, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia
It has been a rare privilege to support and walk alongside the visionary and kingdom-minded efforts birthing this timely diaspora compendium aptly titled Scattered and Gathered . We are living in an unprecedented kairos era, when God is uniquely shaping the movements of people to which he is committed to revealing his glorious love. This compendium is a clarion call to the global church to discern the times and to participate with fresh enthusiasm and strategic planning in completing the great commission. The disciplines of applied missiology and church growth have just received an enormous treasure that with God’s anointing will marvellously shape our efforts moving forward.
Bremwell Frentz
Vice President of Global Ministries,
Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
After being born as the son of immigrants who left Asia to pursue the “American Dream,” I later returned to Asia to share the gospel of Jesus Christ in the land of my father’s former enemies, the Japanese. It is my joy to wholeheartedly commend to you this global diaspora missiology compendium that so powerfully describes the East-to-West and West-to-East dynamics of my own family history. This volume puts out a clarion call to the global church about a critically important mission need and strategy. You truly cannot understand the full picture of global mission without understanding diaspora missiology.
Michael Y. Oh, PhD
Global Executive Director/CEO,
Lausanne Movement
For the past four and a half decades, both my wife and I have lived outside our native countries and moved homes and ministries to several countries in three different continents around the globe. Living in the diaspora and ministering to those living outside their homes has been the story of our lives. In fact, this is the story of God dealing with people from the days of Abraham till the current war in Syria. God calls people to leave their homes and their people and journey to other unknown places, countries and cultures. Through this journey and through difficult and challenging circumstances, God softens the hearts of people and directs their attention to himself. The day of Pentecost became the solid foundation of global mission when Jews from all over the world were present and witnessed the apostles receiving the Holy Spirit spectacularly and starting to speak out the gospel of truth.
The call to intensify mission work through the Global Diaspora Network led by Drs Sadiri Joy Tira and Tetsunao Yamamori is a holy, biblical and timely call for our generation and the fulfillment of the Great Commission. The March 2015 GDN Forum in Manila brought together leaders who have labored hard to research and write articles of related subjects to bring the knowledge and information needed to focus on this great need in today’s mission. Your eyes will be opened as you read these revised and updated articles and your heart will burn for the salvation of the millions living outside their homes, many of them in challenging circumstances.
Henri Aoun
Team Leader,
North Africa, Middle East and the Gulf Region, LifeAgape International
This compendium couldn’t come at a more compelling time in history, when peoples are being scattered in unprecedented numbers. How is the church to understand and respond to the accelerating global diaspora? This is a much needed and timely pioneer work, assembling a multitude of authoritative voices, which is academically rigorous, but brought alive by practical field case studies. Most importantly, it demonstrates the importance of diaspora missiology in God’s mission in the twenty-first century.
Cindy Perry
South Asia Regional Director,
Development Associates International
Author, Nepali around the World
This collection of essays presents diaspora realities as a prominent scenario for the missio Dei in our days. The exploration experienced by the present day global diaspora with the missiological opportunities and challenges it poses for the church, is informative, challenging and encouraging.
Elizabeth Sendek
President,
Fundacion Universitaria Seminario Bîblico de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
The publication of Scattered and Gathered: A Global Compendium of Diaspora Missiology is a significant milestone. The high quality of the international conversation captured in the book makes it a veritable tour de force. A great resource for students and researchers of Christian mission and World Christianity.
Tite Tiénou, PhD
Research Professor, Theology of Mission,
Tite Tiénou Chair of Global Theology and World Christianity,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, USA
Global diaspora is shaping World Christianity, local churches, denominations, missions, theological trajectories, church-planting movements, and more. Scattered and Gathered: A Global Compendium of Diaspora Missiology is essential reading on the realities and trends of global diaspora. It provides biblical and theological foundations for diaspora missiology, and it explores strategic possibilities for the church and mission. Case studies and resources support theology and analysis. In brief, it is an invaluable addition to any library of research into diaspora, mission, and World Christianity.
Graham Hill, PhD
Interim Principal and Director of Research,
Stirling Theological College, Mulgrave, Australia
Author, Global Church
Scattered and Gathered is very comprehensive and thought provoking as it teaches and informs us about the global diaspora movement and mission. The general editors, section editors, and writers are qualified experts in their own respective fields of mission. The topics are relevant and facilitate churches and mission organizations in forming strategic plans for involvement in the needed field of diaspora in Asia and the global village. This book provides readers with a timely vision into mission, with passion, for such a time as ours.
Joseph Shao, PhD
General Secretary, Asia Theological Association
President,
Biblical Seminary of the Philippines, Valenzuela City, Philippines
The current movement of people groups around the world has challenged the church worldwide to carefully contemplate this reality from various perspectives and take into consideration necessary holistic actions required to meet these very real and vast needs with the gospel of Jesus Christ. This book provides a panoramic picture of Christian approaches to the current issues of the global diaspora from a missiological perspective. It opens our eyes to the kairos of God’s redemptive activities among the diaspora and compels the church to stand by those in need with the love of God in an age of globalization.
Masanori Kurasawa, DMiss
Executive Director, Faith and Culture Center
Former President, Tokyo Christian University, Japan
This book entails rich analysis of diaspora and migration phenomena from multiple dimensions including biblical, missiological, historical, social, political and economic perspectives. This book challenges the reader to rethink the meaning of identity and belonging in Christ in the context of the contemporary diaspora world and to reach out to the people on the move beyond our comfort zone with the love of Christ. This is a book most relevant in our understanding and practice of global mission today and is definitely worth reading.
Rev Patrick Fung, MD
General Director, OMF International
This compendium comprises a kaleidoscope of rich biblical and theological insights; perspectives from business, technology, demography and international law; and diverse illustrations from local churches as well as ministries to academics, seafarers, refugees, trekkers, children at risk, and victims of sex trafficking. The contributors are reflective practitioners providing examples from every region of the world. Where else in one volume can one find such a breadth of global voices speaking to the critical challenges and opportunities of ministry to, through and beyond the diasporas?
David Bennett, PhD
Global Associate Director for Collaboration and Content,
Lausanne Movement
When I look back to the first Lausanne publication on the subject of diaspora following the Lausanne Forum in Pattaya in 2004, I am truly humbled, blessed and excited to see the leadership provided by Dr Sadiri Joy Tira and Dr Tetsunao Yamamori that has resulted in the publicati