What does "missional" mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? Leading missiologist Stefan Paas asks what missional spirituality could possibly mean for today's local church. This fully revised new international edition will make this an important introduction to contemporary thinking on mission and the church.

Stefan Paas 

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Pilgrims and Priests

Preface

Notes

Introduction

1 Mission in a Secular Nation

1.1 A Contested Idea

1.2 What Do We Mean by 'Mission'?

1.3 In Search of an Intercultural Missiology

1.4 Evangelism as the Heart of Mission

1.5 The Receptivity of Christianity

1.6 Summary and Conclusion

2 An Always Elusive Majority

2.1 The Church as a Hospital and a Restaurant

2.2 An Ancient Pattern

2.3 Christendom as a Missionary Ideal

2.4 The Creation of a Christian Culture

2.5 Foolish and Weak

2.6 Summary and Conclusion

3 From Folk Church to Conquest

3.1 Folk Church

3.2 Countercultural Church

3.3 Church Growth Theory

3.4 Church as a Transforming Power in the World

3.5 Church Inside Out

3.6 Church as a Powerhouse

3.7 Towards Mission in the West

3.8 Summary and Conclusion

4 Uprooted and Dispersed

4.1 Exile

4.2 Trauma

4.3 Explanations and Interpretations

4.4 A Witnessing Faith

4.5 How to Keep Identity

4.6 Mission During the Exile?

4.7 Missiological Reflections

4.8 Summary and Conclusion

5 Scattered and Sent

5.1 Diaspora and Mission

5.2 Strangers in 1 Peter

5.3 The Church as a 'Royal Priesthood'

5.4 Summary and Conclusion

6 All Together and Each One in Person

6.1 'Priesthood' and 'Priests'

6.2 Experiencing God in Community

6.3 Salvation and the Church

6.4 Mission and Community

6.5 Summary and Conclusion

7 The Priestly Church

7.1 Minority

7.2 Biblically Structured and Ecumenically Sensitive

7.3 Community

7.4 Mission

7.5 Doxology

7.6 Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Scripture References

What does “missional” mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? Leading missiologist Stefan Paas asks what missional spirituality could possibly mean for today’s local church. This fully revised new international edition will make this an important introduction to contemporary thinking on mission and the church.

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