a contextual missiology of the spirit - eTheses Repository ...

the global on the local is a reality. As seen in chapters thee and five, global
Pentecostalism has had a great impact on local Pentecostalism along with the
internal as well as external issues facing Pentecostals, and also the Spirit
experiences have played an important role in their mission theology and practice.
This new model can serve as a viable alternative in the light of the present
globalized Pentecostal context. It takes into consideration global influences, and at
the same time it is faithful to the local context as well. Contextual missiology of
the kind I am proposing in this present study is a contextual missiology of the
Spirit. It is not to argue that all other contextual models should be discarded, but
rather to propose this missiology as another significant model alongside other
contextual models. This model seems to be more flexible as it is sensitive to the
particular cultural or local situation on the one hand, and to the national or global
situation of the movement on the other, and at the same time it takes the
experiences of the Spirit seriously.
This new model tries to expand the horizons of contextual missiology, and to
introduce a missiology of the Spirit moving beyond a simple discussion of the
Spirit and His works as mere topics, to a contextual missiology from the
perspective of the Spirit. In their discussion of ‘Contemporary Currents in
Missiology,’ Jongeneel and Engelen deal with missiologies ‘from above’ and
‘from below.’ By ‘missiologies from above’ they mean the ‘classic,’ or
‘traditional’ mission theory that seeks the support of the Bible as well as church
tradition. By ‘missiologies from below’ they mean modern mission approaches
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