Primarily and fundamentally, there is always a link between what one believes and one’s missionary motivation. Therefore, in many cases the fruit of the mission is rooted in what missionary belief because people do what they believe is right. Furthermore, one’s mission strategy, vision and value statements were fashioned by one’s believe as well.
In recent years, ‘what in people believe’ becomes equally important as ‘how people
believe in.’ The impacts of ‘how people believe in’ mission become the currant of the mission stream’s flowing. For instant, believing in hell and repentance of sinner played major role in pre-Revolutionary Great Awakening. Nevertheless, the raise of multiculturalism, pluralism, inclusivism and exclusivism pushed away Christians’ belief on repentance of sinner. The influence of so-called modern and post modern world view lead many Christian to dilute troubling biblical doctrines on lostness and hell.
In postmodern Christian world there are changes in terms of missionary focus base on negative and positive aspects of faith. Those who believe in negative aspect of faith will likely to present about hell and Saviour when the positive group focusing on temporal benefits of knowing Christ.
For my conclusion, the trends of mission focus, the presentation of the truth were
basically comes from what people belief. The belief system operates acting system. Since the bible encourage believers to live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Hebrews 10:31), faith become essence of Christian life. Therefore, ‘How we believe in God’ is powerfully interrelated to our missionary motivation. If a pastor does not believe in mission but in discipleship than his church will likely to run lots of discipleship programs without doing mission. Therefore, what one believes and one’s missionary motivation is not just a link but they are strappingly interlinking. Nevertheless, it will be effective only when a person has clear knowledge of what he believes and making total dedication to the conviction that he has.
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