My encounter with Missions statistics
ARTICLE I just received an English translation of my article on mission statistics from 2007, eleven years ago.
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ARTICLE I just received an English translation of my article on mission statistics from 2007, eleven years ago.
Thomas Schirrmacher has called on churches in Asia to send more Asian missionaries to Europe. He spoke in front of an audience of millions. His speech at Yoido Full Gospel Church is now available in Korean.
The Executive Board of missiotop (Evangelical Forum for Missions, Cultures and Religions) of the German Evangelical Alliance takes the 65th birthday of Dr. Detlef Blöcher as an occasion for a very personal “thank you” in its journal “Evangelische Missiologie” 2/2018, pp. 113–114: ...
An internationally well known European theologian and church leader has called upon the churches in Asia, to send more missionaries to Europe.
Thomas Schirrmacher. Biblical Foundations for 21st Century World Mission: 69 Theses Toward an Ongoing Global Reformation. World of Theology Series 11. 2018.
In the German and the Englisch Festschrift of the EMW in Hamburg you can find my contribution: “Taking the Chance to Get Closer”.
The important term Missio Dei (Mission of God) needs a biblical foundation. The sending of God by God is a foundational motive in the New Testament. Even at the very beginning of salvation history, shortly after creation, God became the first missionary.