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Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given the unique religious climate of the twenty-first century and the challenges to Christian mission it poses, Christianity Encountering World Religions proposes a new, albeit very biblical, model for mission. Specifically, it is a model for interacting with people of other faiths. The authors term this model “giftive mission,” as it is based on the metaphor of free gift. They suggest that...

Also, although we define success in this book as numerical success, we must bear in mind that there may be many reasons why people have not come to Christ in significant numbers in Buddhist cultures. Political conditions may not be right. Perhaps it has not been in God’s good timing that the gospel would take root in these cultures. If those are the reasons that mission efforts have “failed,” then missionaries can do nothing but continue to be faithful. But perhaps we should consider other ways to
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