Offer them Christ: towards a new mission theology for the United Methodist Church

William A Haddock

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Offer them Christ: towards a new mission theology for the United Methodist Church

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William A Haddock. Offer Them Christ: Towards a New Mission Theology for the United Methodist Church. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/bff87f00-4058-48f9-83dc-eddb563700c7.

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W. A. Haddock. Offer them Christ: towards a new mission theology for the United Methodist Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/bff87f00-4058-48f9-83dc-eddb563700c7

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William A Haddock. Offer Them Christ: Towards a New Mission Theology for the United Methodist Church. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/bff87f00-4058-48f9-83dc-eddb563700c7.

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William A Haddock

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Abstract

The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church has accepted and promulgated a theology of missions from a classical liberal and liberationist/radical point of view. Calls from the evangelicals of the UMC to return to the missio Dei expressed in scripture, traditions of the church, and Wesleyan tradition, have been met with resistance and often forced leaders to form ministries independent of the GBGM. The loss of missionaries devoted to evangelistic practices is due to this basic theological divide. This project is a series of surveys asking basic theological questions of the staff of the GDGM, its missionaries, and some local church pastors. It concludes that the leadership of the missions arm of the UMC is still theologically liberal or liberationist/radical while the local UM churches are more traditional. I conclude that the loss of missionaries dedicated to church planting and offering Christ to unreached people groups is due to this division. I call for a new denominational mission theology based upon the 'emerging ecumenical paradigm' centered on the local church. Based specifically on Acts 1:8 I offer a supplement outlining what such a theology would mean for a local church.

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