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perspective.’ 120 Pentecostal institutes offer programmes with an emphasis on
evangelism and church planting. The vision and curriculum of FBC illustrates this
fact. Its vision is to ‘fulfil the “Great Commission” in the power of the Holy
Spirit…. the vision of reaching the nation by training men and women, who are
spiritually vibrant… Spirit-empowered….’ 121 The MDiv programme offers eight
mission subjects, and two of them are core courses. Five mission subjects are
offered for BTh, and two of them are core courses, and the Diploma programme
has three mission subjects.
It is not so easy to make a distinction between Pentecostal mission theology and
mission practice as they seem to be inseparable. Their mission theology seems to
be pragmatic. However, this seems to be the characteristic of global
Pentecostalism generally. Pomerville has observed that Pentecostals have a
‘church growth oriented mission strategy,’ and their ‘mission strategy has also
been characterized as pragmatic.’ 122 Pentecostals in Rajasthan mainly focus on
evangelism and church planting. They argue that whatever the means of mission,
the end result must be church planting. They use various means of evangelism,
including literature distribution, street preaching, house-to-house witnessing,
personal evangelism, healing campaigns, hospital evangelism, as well as power
encounter activities like prayer walking and spiritual mapping. The description in
120
Siga Arles, ‘The Place of Missiology in Theological Education: How Does Formal Theological
Education Shape Future Mission Leadership?’ in Leadership and Mission: Papers from the 9 th
CMS Consultation, ed. Mark T.B. Laing (Pune/Delhi, India: CMS/ISPCK, 2004), 175. He explains
how all theological education is given from a mission perspective. See pp. 175-78.
121
Prospectus 2006, 5.
122
Pomerville, Third Force, 109.
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