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SWEDISH MISSIOLOGICAL THEMES SVENSK MISSIONSTIDSKRIFT

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502 Tormod Engelsviken<br />

In times of apostasy and decline, they have renewed the church and spread<br />

it to new areas and peoples.<br />

Thirdly, they have most often belonged to a strong Christian community or<br />

fellowship, whether it be a monastery, an order, a community, a conventicle,<br />

a prayer group, an “ecclesiola in ecclesia” or in whatever other way one<br />

might describe it in terms of theology or sociology. In this fellowship, a<br />

missional spirituality has been developed and nourished which has made<br />

missionary service a real option for individuals, and which has supported<br />

and helped missionaries to persevere in their ministries. These fellowships<br />

have served as support groups; through prayer and intercession, missionary<br />

preaching, recruitment, organisation, education and support of the mission<br />

work. One observes an almost necessary interplay between the missionaries<br />

themselves and the communities from which they come and on which they<br />

more or less depend.<br />

The mission of the church is a project that has been carried out by sinful<br />

and frail human beings who wished to live out their deep Christian<br />

convictions in practical ministry for others in word and deed.<br />

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dag. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1994, pp. 110-132.<br />

Berentsen, Jan-Martin: Misjon og teologi. Trekk fra protestantismens historie<br />

fram til vårt århundre. Oslo: Nye Luther forlag, 1990.<br />

Bosch, David J.: Transforming Mission. Paradigm Shifts in Theology of<br />

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Brierley, Peter W.: “Missionary Attrition: The Re MAP Research Report”,<br />

in: Taylor, William D.: Too Valuable to lose. Pasadena, Ca.: William<br />

Carey Library, 1997, pp. 85-104.<br />

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for the future from the archives of today. Slough: St. Paul Publications,<br />

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Ekström, Bertil: “Jesuit Community, spirituality and mission”, in: Taylor,<br />

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