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Understanding the Global Church: What Should We Keep in Mind About Missions?

Understanding the Global Church: What Should We Keep in Mind About Missions?

In the wake of a changing global church, what should the local church keep in mind? How does the landscape of global missions change? How should missions agencies adjust to globalization? Here are a couple of things we found:

1.     Mission strategies, approaches, and structures should reflect the global nature of the church and factor in the complexities that can involve.

How one might teach others to live out their faith in one location might look completely different in another city. Many settings are multicultural now and that should be taken into account, so that we can navigate the challenges more efficiently.

5 Things You Might Not Know About the Global Church

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5 Things You Might Not Know About the Global Church

While our Lord and Savior, Jesus, is the eternally the same, His church across the globe continues to grow and change with every year that passes. Here are a few things you might not realize about the global church in the modern world.

1.      The center of Christianity is no longer in the west.

Christianity’s center of gravity is no longer moving north and west as it has in the past when Christianity spread to the western world. Now, the center has immensely shifted back towards the south and east.

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