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    Introducing World Missions Chapter 1

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    The document provides an introduction to world missions, outlining some of the challenges of modern missions such as political/religious tensions and declining belief in absolute truth in Western societies. It also defines key terms like "Missio Dei" (the mission of God), missiology (the academic study of mission), and notes how the role of missionaries has changed in modern times with new technologies allowing them to engage cross-culturally without living long-term in other cultures. The introduction to the next chapter suggests the Old Testament implicitly supports Christian mission by depicting creation/fall, God calling and protecting Israel, and their eventual exile.

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    The document provides an introduction to world missions, outlining some of the challenges of modern missions such as political/religious tensions and declining belief in absolute truth in Western societies. It also defines key terms like "Missio Dei" (the mission of God), missiology (the academic study of mission), and notes how the role of missionaries has changed in modern times with new technologies allowing them to engage cross-culturally without living long-term in other cultures. The introduction to the next chapter suggests the Old Testament implicitly supports Christian mission by depicting creation/fall, God calling and protecting Israel, and their eventual exile.

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    The document provides an introduction to world missions, outlining some of the challenges of modern missions such as political/religious tensions and declining belief in absolute truth in Western societies. It also defines key terms like "Missio Dei" (the mission of God), missiology (the academic study of mission), and notes how the role of missionaries has changed in modern times with new technologies allowing them to engage cross-culturally without living long-term in other cultures. The introduction to the next chapter suggests the Old Testament implicitly supports Christian mission by depicting creation/fall, God calling and protecting Israel, and their eventual exile.

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    Introducing World Missions Chapter 1

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    Introducing World Missions Chapter 1

     The reality of modern day missions is often morbid and lethal. Political and religious tensions,
    disease, austere living conditions, extremist terrorism are a few difficulties and deterrents to the
    missions field and to prospective missionaries.
     The belief in absolute truth is becoming less and less held by modern Americans. Few people
    believe in an absolute way to God, but rather accept the doctrine of religious pluralism as a valid
    substitute. The American people are continually growing to believe that Christianity is not the
    only facet to God and eternal salvation.
     The Christian mission is often caught between Islam and Commercialism. Islam rejects
    Christianity on a spiritual level, while Commercialism (often unconsciously) rejects Christianity
    on a material and moralistic level. Both of these issues can rub off on the modern Christian
    mission, breeding either religious pluralism, or a subsidized form of Christianity comparable to
    the “health and wealth” gospel movement.
     Missions is the specific movement within churches to reach out to specific people groups,
    culturally and cross-culturally. Mission is the term that describe the overall mission of the
    church in general, otherwise known as the great commission by Christ to his apostles.
     Missio Dei is Latin for “the mission of God.” It is defined as the actions God commits or
    otherwise permits others to do in relation with related the gospel message to the unsaved
    world. The church in general is merely a tool by which God calls to the nations.
     Missiology is the academic study of the mission, the missions, and the mission of God with the
    goal of finding practical and theoretical applications in reference to the nature of the mission,
    it’s goal, and it’s means to accomplish itself.
     Missionaries today are different compared to ancestral missionaries. Missionaries today may
    not have to cross cultural bounds or, in many cases, learn a foreign language, in order to be
    effective in today’s mission field. This is due to the modern invent of TV, the internet, radio,
    printed text, and other forms of multimedia that are readily available and easily distributed.
    Neither are missionaries superspiritual, misfits in their own societies, hardy pioneers, fluent in
    one or many languages, in possession of a strong God given calling, bigoted cultural imperialists.
    They do not necessarily live in the “bush” or even go overseas, but they are certainly needed.
    Modern missionaries do not necessarily pursue lifelong missionary careers either. They may
    spend a few years to many decades in country, but do not always spend the entirety of their
    lives in the missions field.
    Introducing World Missions Chapter 2

     A case for modern Christian mission may be implicitly found in the OT. It can be summed up in
    four parts: creation/fall, the calling for and isolation of a people specifically for God, the trials
    and rescue of that people, and the exile of those people.

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