i have come across a new (to me )blog, it’s called missiology matters! my two passions are the Bible and cross-cultural mission – this is a blog I have subscribed to so I will be following it! If you have similar interests you may want to do the same.
The author of the blog is Robert Priest, a missiology professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
You might wonder what is missiology? Very simply is it the study of missions. Here is a brief statement from the blog:
Missiology is an interdisciplinary discipline which, through research, writing, and teaching, furthers the acquisition, development, and transmission of theologically-informed, contextually-grounded, and ministry-oriented knowledge and understanding, with the goal of helping and correcting Christians, and Christian institutions, involved in the doing of Christian mission.
For more read the blog and give it a follow (and this post too)!
Even so, I think these kinds of things are important for pastors to be reading up on. You’d be surprised how much of missiological thinking and praxis can be applied to local church life and contexts, especially given the increasingly diverse (even pluralistic) our congregations and communities become. Good pastors and exegetes of the Bible need to be well read in a broad area of issues, missiology is one of those. That is, in my personal opinion!
Blessings!