Incarnational Mission of Missionary Miss Elisabeth J. Shepping, R.N.

Abstract Digital culture technology has opened up a whole new realm of virtual life, relationships and community that seem to exist above and beyond the banalities of ‘real life’. It seems that more and more people are spending more and more time jacked into ‘cyberspace’, and some even get lost there. This compartmentalized view of virtual life has prompted various cross-cultural approaches to mission, exploring how we might become immersed in the online world as a witness to unreached virtual peoples. On the one hand, there is an ever-growing literature on how incarnational mission in this context can be accomplished through various approaches to internet evangelism, web ministry, and planting virtual churches. On the other hand, there is a good deal of theological reflection that warns us that enthusiasm for virtual life and mission must be tempered by a concern for the disembodying and dehumanizing power of digital technology on Christian life and communities. Recent studies have shown that digital culture does not merely lead to the compartmentalization of embodied and virtual realms, however, but to an ever greater convergence between them. In particular, the development of mobile computing devices and wireless network connectivity has woven our online activities and virtual relationships into the routine flow of everyday life. From the perspective of convergence, this essay argues that the future of mission will necessitate a reorientation from planting churches in virtual worlds to living as mission-shaped disciples at the interface of embodied and virtual life. The promise and pitfalls of digital culture are explored, along with a critical survey of various theological and missional stances towards it. In conclusion, some practical-theological reflections are offered towards developing a ‘rule of life’ for mission-shaped discipleship in a culture of convergence.

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Rekonsiliasi sebagai Paradigma Misi Trinitarian Inkarnasional dan Konstruksinya pada Ruang Publik

SOTIRIA (Jurnal Theologia dan Pendidikan Agama Kristen) ◽

10.47166/sot.v4i1.36 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 37-46

Author(s):

Donald Steven Keryapi

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Research Method ◽

Missio Dei ◽

Research Approach ◽

The Public ◽

Open Relationships ◽

Triune God ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Incarnational Mission ◽

The Trinity

this study aims to reveal how the concept of Missio Dei as reconciliation in the trinity-incarnational mission paradigm and construct the form of mission Dei as reconciliation in the public sphere. The research method used is a qualitative research method through the Literature Research approach whose research results are obtained through reading various literature on the mission and practice of reconciliation. This research reveals that Missio Dei is a mission carried out by the Triune God so that humans can reunite in the fellowship of the Triune God through reconciliation through the incarnation of the Word, namely Jesus Christ. Missio Dei as this reconciliation forms the format of the mission as reconciliation between individuals/groups based on the trinitarian-incarnational framework and is constructed through a construction circle approach that starts with open relationships and ends with risky actions. The conclusion is that mission Dei as reconciliation is an alternative in the context of today's mission. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana konsep Missio Dei sebagai rekonsiliasi dalam paradigma misi trinitas-inakrnasional dan mengkonstruksikan bentuk mission Dei sebagai rekonsiliasi dalam ruang public. Metode penelitian yang dipakai ialah metode penelitian kualitatif melalui pendekatan Literatur Research yang hasil penelitiannya didapat melalui pembacaan berbagai literatur tentang misi dan praktik rekonsiliasi. Penelitian ini mengungkapakan bahwa Missio Dei adalah misi yang dilakukan oleh Alah Tritunggal agar manusia dapat bersekutu kembali dalam persekutuan Allah Tritunggal melalui rekonsiliasi yang dilakukan melalui inkarnasi sang Firman yaitu Yesus Kristus. Missio Dei sebagai rekonsiliasi ini membentuk format misi sebagai rekonsiliasi antar setiap pribadi/kelompok berdasarkan kerangka trinitarian-inkarnasional dan dikonstruksikan melalalui pendekatan lingkaran konstruksi yang dimulai dari hubungan terbuka yang diakhiri dengan tindakan beresiko. Kesimpulan yang didapat ialah bahwa mission Dei sebagai rekonsiliasi merupakan alternatif dalam konteks misi masa kini.

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Interfaith friendship as incarnational mission practice: Presidential Address, ASM 2018

Missiology An International Review ◽

10.1177/0091829618814835 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 6-17

Author(s):

Bonnie Sue Lewis

Keyword(s):

Presidential Address ◽

God's Love ◽

Triune God ◽

In Christ ◽

Religious Other ◽

Incarnational Mission ◽

The Stranger

Believing that the love of our triune God enables love of others and faithful witness to our lives in Christ, interfaith friendships are a testimony to the incarnational nature and power of God’s love. Such friendships not only provide the means for overcoming the growing fear, hostility, and distrust of the religious other among us, they also allow God to love us through the stranger. In so doing, we welcome the living Christ who dwells in our midst, relying on his Spirit to draw each of us closer to the compassionate heart of God.

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Incarnational Mission: Being with the World

Theology Today ◽

10.1177/0040573620916724b ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 103-104

Author(s):

Scott J. Hagley

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Incarnational Mission

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Incarnational Mission

Mission Possible, Second Edition ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1ddcq26.16 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 135-144

Keyword(s):

Incarnational Mission

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Die inkarnering van die missio Dei as praktykmodel vir die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v71i3.3066 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

Author(s):

J. Christo Van der Merwe

Keyword(s):

Missio Dei ◽

Christian Mission ◽

Early Christian ◽

Reformed Church ◽

Incarnational Mission ◽

The Many ◽

Theological Understanding ◽

The Mind ◽

Christian Witness ◽

The Church

The incarnation of the missio Dei practice model for the Dutch Reformed Church of Africa. The decline of the church in the West is of great concern to many today. The Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NRCA), experiences the same tendency. We are living in a time when survival is on the mind of most mainline congregations and denominations. The question is what shall we do to turn this situation around? The answer is to be found in the rediscovery of what it means for the church to be missional. The knowledge about how the early church functioned helps us to rediscover the character of early Christian mission, much of what is drawn together in the concept of incarnational mission. This article examines incarnational mission as the understanding and practise of Christian witness that is rooted in and shaped by the life, ministry, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Understanding mission incarnationally in this manner is an integrative way to approach the church’s missionary vocation and to avoid the typical Western reduction of mission to one of the many programms of the church. The article, by exploring the meaning of incarnational mission, endeavours to be both constructive with regard to the biblical and theological understanding of the message, and polemical with regard to the context and history of mission, especially in the Western tradition. This article follows Darrell Guder in arguing that the historical ‘happenedness’ of Jesus’ life both enables and defines Christian witness. In exploring the missional ignificance of the incarnation, the article tries to avoid any dilution of the centrality of the incarnation event.

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