SWEDISH MISSIOLOGICAL THEMES SVENSK MISSIONSTIDSKRIFT
SWEDISH MISSIOLOGICAL THEMES SVENSK MISSIONSTIDSKRIFT
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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