Welcoming Africa's children: The nature and implications of being a missional church

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Welcoming Africa's children: The nature and implications of being a missional church
 
Creator Knoetze, Johannes J.
 
Subject Missiology, Practical theology Missio Dei; Missional church; Africa; children
Description  This article presents a brief overview of the historical development of the missional church from the understanding of the missio Dei. From this perspective, it attends to the African context. With regard to African children, the African independent churches are looked at from a missional church perspective. The nature of the missional church is described as being a Biblical, Trinitarian, discerning, evangelistic, hermeneutic and agogic community. The implication of being missional in accordance with the mentioned characteristics is then linked to the five solas of the Reformed tradition. It is concluded that the African independent churches and the mainline missionary churches need each other in order to be truly missional in Africa and to reach the children of Africa.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Children and Youth Ministry is challenged by the context of Africa, when some relevant characteristics of the African independent or initiated churches (AICs) are described and related to the Reformed tradition. The (missional) ecclesiology of the AICs and the Reformed tradition is challenged by children’s ministry
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2016-08-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literary Analysis
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v37i1.1600
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 37, No 1 (2016); 8 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage — — African; Children
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Johannes J. Knoetze https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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