Theology Drives Missions? AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!!!
Although Japan is a tough mission field – considered by some missiologists to be the most difficult mission field in the world – we’ve seen tremendous openness to the Gospel among young people.
We’re really just a small ministry, but we’re involved in a fairly broad range of ministries from evangelism to discipleship, from counseling to music, from lay training to graduate level theological training. Our goal has been to set up a ministry that models the whole range of Gospel WITNESS and Gospel IMPACT from a Gospel FOUNDATION
And at the very CORE of all these ministries is theological education.
In missions we are not merely looking for numeric conversions. We are looking for sustainable growth of the church as the instrument of God’s work in this world.
It’s easy to dismiss theology and theological training ‐ especially in the mission field as we’re SOOO busy, so undermanned and so focused on evangelism. But theology is the foundational discipline for all of ministry.
Theology must inform our evangelism;
Theology must inform our discipleship;
Theology must inform our church planting, our counseling, and certainly our theological education...
Please do pray for Japan. This is an extremely exciting season of fruit bearing. Light has begun to shine especially among young people, and I am very optimistic about the future of that nation and those people, the people that I love.
- Michael Oh...I think you know where from by now
We’re really just a small ministry, but we’re involved in a fairly broad range of ministries from evangelism to discipleship, from counseling to music, from lay training to graduate level theological training. Our goal has been to set up a ministry that models the whole range of Gospel WITNESS and Gospel IMPACT from a Gospel FOUNDATION
And at the very CORE of all these ministries is theological education.
In missions we are not merely looking for numeric conversions. We are looking for sustainable growth of the church as the instrument of God’s work in this world.
It’s easy to dismiss theology and theological training ‐ especially in the mission field as we’re SOOO busy, so undermanned and so focused on evangelism. But theology is the foundational discipline for all of ministry.
Theology must inform our evangelism;
Theology must inform our discipleship;
Theology must inform our church planting, our counseling, and certainly our theological education...
Please do pray for Japan. This is an extremely exciting season of fruit bearing. Light has begun to shine especially among young people, and I am very optimistic about the future of that nation and those people, the people that I love.
- Michael Oh...I think you know where from by now
