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If You Would Like to Order a Print Copy of This Issue of Missio Apostolica, E-Mail Lsfmissiology@Gmail.Com If you would like to order a print copy of this issue of Missio Apostolica, e-mail [email protected]. MISSIO APOSTOLICA Lutheran Mission Matters Journal of the Lutheran Society for Missiology Volume XXII, No. 2 (Issue 44) November 2014 www.lsfmissiology.org MISSIO APOSTOLICA —Journal of the Lutheran Society for Missiology, Inc.— ISSN 1068-3151 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Rev. Dr. Victor Raj, Editor & Chairman Mr. David Berger Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb, Editor Mr. Mark Kempff Rev. Dr. Joel Okamoto, Book Editor Rev. Dr. Jon Diefenthaler Rev. Jeff Thormodson Rev. Dr. Rudy Blank Rev. Dr. Daniel Mattson Rev. Dr. Rich Carter, DCE Rev. Dr. Douglas Rutt Mrs. Miriam Carter Rev. Dr. Robert Scudieri ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT TO THE OFFICE OF THE EDITOR: MISSIO APOSTOLICA TEL: (314) 505-7115 801 Seminary Place FAX: (314) 505-7393 St. Louis, MO 63105, USA BOOKS FOR REVIEW SHOULD BE SENT TO THE BOOK EDITOR: Joel Okamoto TEL: (314) 505-7152 801 Seminary Place E-mail: [email protected] St. Louis, MO 63105, USA EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Stacey Parker c/o Dr. Victor Raj 801 Seminary Place E-mail: [email protected] St. Louis, MO 63105, USA Missio Apostolica is published twice a year in the spring and fall by the Lutheran Society for Missiology, Inc. (LSFM). Missio Apostolica serves as an international Lutheran forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of issues related to proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ globally. The views expressed by the individual writers, however, are not necessarily the views of the editors, Editorial Committee, or the Board of Directors of LSFM. The journal is an open-access publication and is available online at http://lsfmissiology.org/. Subscriptions to an identical paper copy are available at a modest cost per year as well. The journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database (online journal index of the American Theological Library Association) and its related online full-text component, ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials). ATLAS may be accessed at no charge by alumni of many seminaries upon request to the library of their alma mater including Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, USA. Copyright 2014, The Lutheran Society for Missiology, Inc., St. Louis. Cover design by Justin Kumfer MISSIO APOSTOLICA Journal of the Lutheran Society for Missiology, Inc. Volume XXII, No. 2 (44) November 2014 CONTENTS About the Cover .................................................................................................. 168 Inside this Issue ................................................................................................... 169 Editorials ............................................................................................................ 170 ARTICLES Fresh Wineskins for Christ’s Mission Robert Newton ................................................................................... 176 The Expanding Edge of Mission: Missouri’s (uneasy) Relationship with Mission Societies James Tino......................................................................................... 195 Mission of Christ Network Kermit W. (Butch) Almstedt .............................................................. 203 Vulnerability in Mission Rich Carter ........................................................................................ 212 Building Bridges: Toward Constructing a Christian Foundation for Inter-Religious Relationships in the Shift from Religious Privilege to Spiritual Plurality Ken Chitwood .................................................................................... 225 Reaching Out to the Non-Baptized Believers: Missiological Implications from a Lutheran Perspective Sam Thompson ................................................................................ 247 Contextualizing the Faith in Amerindian Culture John Babbitts ................................................................................... 259 The Korean Lutherans’ Perspective of Lutheranism and Lutheran Identity Jin-Seop Eom .................................................................................... 270 LCMS Missionaries and an Alien Indian Culture: A Gospel-Culture Engagement at the Margins of Indian Society Stanish Stanley .................................................................................. 294 HMong Mission in LCMS Kou Seying ........................................................................................ 309 Transformational Mission Work—A Definition Paul Mueller ...................................................................................... 329 BOOK REVIEWS............................................................................................... 342 LUTHERAN SOCIETY FOR MISSIOLOGY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Rev. Dr. Daniel Mattson, Chairman Rev. Dr. Victor Raj, Editor & Chairman Professor Phil Johnson, Vice-chairman Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb, Editor Rev. James Pressnell, Secretary Rev. Dr. Joel Okamoto, Book Editor Mrs. Ruth Mattson, Treasurer Rev. Jeffrey Thormodson Rev. Jeff Thormodson, Executive Director Rev. Dr. Daniel Mattson Rev. Dr. Victor Raj, Editor Mr. David Berger Rev. Dr. Eugene Bunkowske (ex-officio) Rev. Dr. Douglas Rutt Mr. Mark Kempff Rev. Dr. Robert Scudieri Rev. Dr. Jon Diefenthaler Rev. Dr. Rudy Blank Rev. Dr. Rich Carter, DCE Mrs. Miriam Carter About The Cover: You Can Judge This Journal By Its Cover “Lutheran mission matters.” Yes, it does; and yes, Lutheran mission matters are what you read about in Missio Apostolica, now in its twenty-second year of publication. Ambiguity, double meaning—call it what you will. The journal’s subtitle packs much meaning into few words. Lutheran mission matters because it is based on God’s gracious gifts: His Word and His Sacraments. The Spirit plants faith in hearts as He wills, and so Lutherans ground their work of God’s mission in the tools that His Spirit supplies: His saving Word and Sacraments. The Lutheran mission matters in Missio Apostolica reflect the thinking and practice of Lutherans in many walks of life: theologians at seminaries, missionaries in the field and retired missionaries, pastors in the parish, teachers in classrooms, laypeople who bring God’s Word to their neighbors. The new cover illustration, the subject of extended discussion by the editorial committee, is intended not to supersede the LSFM logo of a cross on an open Bible against a background of the globe. Rather, it is to expand on it—to display graphically that mission is about people, people of all cultures and colors. The stylized gathering on the cover depicts a representative sampling of all those who spread the Word and those who hear it. That the people stand in the southern hemisphere is no accident. It reminds us of the growing vibrancy of Christ’s church in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, even as Christians in the “old” countries of Christendom, and even the “new world,” in the north struggle to maintain a vital presence. Mission is not a one-way street from north to south or from west to east. The arrows point in all directions, and the cross remains at the center of it all. God’s mission is everywhere, just as it always has been. David O. Berger Inside this Issue The contributors to this issue of Missio Apostolica present a wide array of subjects that pertain to the organic way in which the Gospel reaches out to people’s hearts and how those who hear the message confess the faith in the one Lord Jesus Christ as they live and make a living in the places and locations God had allotted specifically for them on the face of the earth. At the cutting edge of mission and church planting, they are in different ways rediscovering and possibly returning to the first-century mission models, trying to emulate what the early apostles and evangelists were attempting as they were reaching out with the Gospel to peoples and communities existing outside their own socio-cultural and religious comfort zones. Authors who understand Native American and Asian Indian cultures and religions speak as insiders on how the biblical message requires different ways of expressing the Gospel of salvation as it involves cultures that are saturated with a variety of religions and philosophies that do not directly coordinate with the biblical worldview. At the same time, some authors address the new and emerging challenges for the church’s ministry and mission in North America, as in this historically famous sending place of Christian missions the Christian religion exists today as one of many choices in the marketplace of religions and its exclusive claims are constantly and intentionally attacked by the prevailing pluralism of religions. Here we hear clearly from those who have served and continue to serve the Lutheran Church as missionaries, district presidents, mission executives, seminary professors, and researchers and learn from them new lessons on issues and questions that pose serious challenges to the status quo of traditionally established mission methods and the existing policies of some mission boards. Mission society leaders’ voices also represent numerous others like them whose missional directions conflict with the traditional institutional models although everyone in their heart desires to reach out to others in the name of the Gospel. Inside this issue of Missio Apostolica, numerous missional questions are posed before the reader to consider and reflect on for the sake of those who do not yet belong. The two guest editorials strongly suggest
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