What are the missiological implications emerging from the presence of hundreds of thousands of Christians from other parts of the world in many European cities?
Read MoreDespite a plethora of material, aimed at helping churches and individual believers to respond to the pandemic crisis, there appears to be little focus, if any, on the theological – and missiological – implications that people can no longer ignore the possibility of death.
Read MoreIn the last decade the term ‘missional’ has become a prominent focus among American, Australian and British authors. The missional conversation is often misunderstood or even dismissed as a new recipe for making struggling churches successful.
Read MoreThe three missional practices explored in this paper bear all the hallmarks of not only a robust and thorough-going missiology but missiological methodologies that embrace the challenges and changes in the contemporary Western contex
Read MoreIn this short interview, Mike Frost speaks exclusively to VISTA about what this more recent development indicates and how it can move the missional conversation forward.
Read MoreBetween January and March 2012, I carried out some small-scale research amongst 18-30 year-old Christian Europeans, in order to discover their perceptions of a missional lifestyle
Read MoreDefining “missional” with any precision is no easy task. Perhaps the most helpful simple definition of “missional” church is that of “…a community of God’s people that defines itself and organises its life around its real purpose of being an agent of God’s mission to the world”
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According to Together in Berlin, more than eighty missional initiatives have started in the last 10 years. When you next visit Berlin, you might like to add one or two of them to your tour itinerary.
Read MoreDarrell Jackson reviews three non-English titles relating to the missional conversation as it unfolds across Europe, written in Dutch, Norwegian, and German respectively. Taken together they give a flavour of how mission-minded church leaders are trying to engage in the missional conversation across the continent.
Read MoreChurch planting in Europe continues today, at a pace that can be hard to keep track of. This article explores some of the models and points to information and resources for you to find out more.
Read MoreA selection of books about different forms of church planting
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