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Redefining Mission: From Fixed Frontiers to Fluid Edges
Redefining Mission: From Fixed Frontiers to Fluid Edges

09-Sep-2025 • Joe Handley

09-Sep-2025 • Joe Handley • blog: Joe's Posts

09-Sep-2025 • Joe Handley • blog: Joe's Posts

by JOSEPH W. HANDLEY, President, A3
Forty years ago, the “edges” of mission were relatively clear....

by JOSEPH W. HANDLEY, President, A3
Forty years ago, the “edges” of mission were relatively clear. Unreached people groups were primarily mapped geographically, pioneering missions meant long journeys...

by JOSEPH W. HANDLEY, President, A3
Forty years ago, the “edges” of mission were relatively clear. Unreached people groups were primarily mapped geographically, pioneering missions meant long journeys to faraway lands, and “access” was defined by political...

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FOOTNOTES

 1 Yeh, Allen. 2016. Polycentric Missiology: 21st Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic)

 2 Koschorke, Klaus and Hermann, Adrian. Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity. Polyzentrische Strukturen in der Geschichte des Weltchristentums. (2014).

 3 Ostrom, Elinor. June 2010. “Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems”American Economic Review. American Economic Association. 100 (3): 641–72.

 4 Moltmann, Jürgen. The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology (Fortress, 1993). Volf, Miroslav. 1998. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Eerdmans. Newbigin, Lesslie. The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission. 1995. Roland Allen, Mission Activities Considered in Relation to the Manifestation of the Spirit. World Dominion, 1927. David J. Bosch, Transforming Mission: paradigm shifts in theology of mission. Orbis, 1991. Franklin, Kirk J, Crough, Dave, and Crough, Deborah. Towards Global Missional Leadership: A Journey Through Leadership Paradigm Shift in the Mission of God (Regnum Practitioner). 2017. Woodward, JR. Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World. InterVarsity Press, 2013

 

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