mission field—but a post-Christian, rather than a pre-Christian, field. Since the term evangelism carries for some the baggage (and narrowness) of Christendom days when the general biblical worldview was prevalent enough in society that street-corner confrontations and stadium crusades found more traction and produced more genuine converts, the emergence of the term missional (somewhat in place of evangelistic) signifies that the times are changing in some significant degree, calling for new missions-like
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