Mission as hospitality : imitating the hospitable God in mission / by Edward L. Smither.
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TextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, c2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: viii, 137 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781725257313 (paperback)
- 266.001 Smi 2021
- BV2100 .S667 2021
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| 266.001 Sen 1983 c.2 The Biblical foundations for mission / | 266.001 She 1994 God's call to mission / | 266.001 She 1994 c.2 God's call to mission / | 266.001 Smi 2021 Mission as hospitality : imitating the hospitable God in mission / | 266.001 Tab 2000 To understand the world, to save the world : the interface between missiology and the social sciences / | 266.001 Tip 1987 Introduction to missiology / | 266.001 Tow 1993 Toward the twenty-first century in Christian mission : [manuscript] : essays in honor of Gerald H. Anderson / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-135) and index.
1. Mission as hospitality in the Old Testament -- 2. Mission as hospitality in the New Testament -- 3. Mission as hospitality at the Lord's table -- 4. Mission as hospitality in the work of missionary monks -- 5. Mission as hospitality : contemporary models -- 6. Mission as hospitality : reflections and practice.
"God is a missionary God. God is also hospitable in his nature. He makes his enemies friends and invites them to intimate communion. The mission of God in Scripture often occurs through hospitality when God's people encounter the not-yet people of God at table or in hospitable environments and invite them to believe. This motif of mission as hospitality plays out through the Old and New Testament Scriptures, and through the Eucharist. It can also be observed through the witness of monks and contemporary missionaries who embraced a hospitable approach to mission. For the church to participate in God's mission today, a vision to win, conquer, or change the world should be exchanged for a conviction to welcome the stranger and make room for others while proclaiming the gospel--that is, to imitate the hospitable God in mission."--Publisher.
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