ICS 3700 - Contemporary Trends in Missions

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Crossroads College (Closed)

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This course covers current missiological issues and trends, including church-mission relationships, the ecumenical movement, nationalism, and their significance to the worldwide mission of the Church. This course is a comparative examination of the relationship and mutual influences of the Christian world mission and of contemporary secular trends on the global scale. "Mission" i s God? ? project to reclaim the whole world from its rebellion and alienation and to restore it to God 's rule. God has sent the church into all the world, to be in the world but not of the world, in order to participate in Go d's mission; it is what the church exists primarily for--to worship God and to invite the whole world to join in. But the church in the West is often too much conformed to the world to be aware of its missional calling or to be effectively involved in it. This course will consider a number of current trends in the United States and around the world, both in the world and in the church, that powerfully affect the chur ch's participati on in God's mission; it will attempt to develop an approach that will enable the church to be more fully and more effectively missional. Offered: alternate years. Di

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.crossroadscollege.edu

Phone Number:

(507) 288-4563

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Semester

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