Worship, Work and Witness: Action Research in a Local Church

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Pages:: 155–175

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004696235_011

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David Bosch claimed that ministry by the whole people of God is one of the most dramatic shifts taking place in the church today. What might this mean for local congregations who seek to embody missio Dei? This chapter describes an action research project in a local church seeking to integrate worship, work and witness. Practices of gathered public prayer, scattered weekday prayer resources and conversational formation are analyzed using ecclesia docens (the teaching church) and ecclesia discens (the learning church) as categories. What results is an understanding of the Great Commission as baptizing into the fullness of vocational life, learning together (ecclesia discens) to obey everything that God as creator, redeemer, sustainer commands in missio Dei. Hence the chapter resources faith-full work witness to shed light on practices that encourage Transforming of work. In the process, the hermeneutics by which missio Dei is understood as learning not teaching in resourcing the local church faith-full witness in all of life beyond Sunday are clarified.

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Transforming Work

Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World

Series: Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004696235

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2024

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