The effects of big picture presentations of the biblical story on the missional orientation of church goers

Kyungsoo Kim

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The effects of big picture presentations of the biblical story on the missional orientation of church goers

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Kyungsoo Kim. The Effects of Big Picture Presentations of the Biblical Story On the Missional Orientation of Church Goers. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d50549ea-6a48-49bf-9c3d-bb926b92e6ea.

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K. Kim. The effects of big picture presentations of the biblical story on the missional orientation of church goers. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d50549ea-6a48-49bf-9c3d-bb926b92e6ea

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Kyungsoo Kim. The Effects of Big Picture Presentations of the Biblical Story On the Missional Orientation of Church Goers. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d50549ea-6a48-49bf-9c3d-bb926b92e6ea.

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Kyungsoo Kim

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Abstract

Nearly a half-century of Christian scholarship points to the ongoing issue of missional deficiency within the Church, a pressing concern that coincides with Christianity’s observed decline in the West. Research on the subject indicates a widespread de-emphasis on God’s mission within Christian institutions, from churches great and small to the seminaries that train their leaders. This consequentially obstructs the missional development of individual believers, the true units of the Body of Christ, who were sent by Christ to carry out God’s mission and advance God’s Kingdom not only overseas, but in their local communities. Given this stagnant and self-defeating state of the Western Church, a remedy that restores the Church through breakthrough missional growth must be found. For this study, a cross-disciplinary methodology was constructed from the substance of scripture, the unifying lens of biblical theology, and relevant social scientific models specifically concerned with the idea adoption process and the effectiveness of training practices. The research conducted reveals that yes, a focused missional message with a unifying emphasis on scripture can observably improve the missional orientation of believers, realigning them with God’s mission in their daily lives. The implications and applications of the results are significant, showing that all test group participants improved significantly in their missional knowledge and missional postures/attitudes after receiving the big picture message. There were also significant indications that participants were forming missional intentions/decisions that could inform future implementation of missional behaviors for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. This study provides ample evidence that the key to developing the missional orientation and awareness of churchgoers is a big picture approach to the biblical story, which traces the origins and trajectory of God’s mission from the days of Moses to the end of days.

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