Transforming Work: Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World (Theology and Mission in World Christianity, 30)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
	1 Work in a Disrupted Age
	2 A Missiological Methodology: Transforming Paradigms?
	3 A Global Missiology Conversation
	4 An Ecumenical Conversation of Mission as the Church in the World
Part 1: Christ in the World
	Introduction to Part 1
2 Towards a Grassroots Missiology: Case Studies of Missio Dei in the Streets of East Asia
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Case I: a Transformed and Transformative Barber: from a Kidnapper to a Missional Leader
	3 Case II: a Gourmet Chef: from Kitchen to Pulpit
	4 Grassroots Missiological Reflections
		4.1 Mission as Inculturation
		4.2 Mission as Liberation
		4.3 Mission as Ministry by the Whole People of God
	5 Conclusion
3 “Good Work,” Missio Dei, and a Gospel-Worthy Life in Philippians
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction: Shining Light amongst Vietnamese Diaspora
	2 Missio Dei and Paul’s Missionary Enterprise in Philippians
	3 Good Work in Philippians
	4 The Formation of a Gospel Community
	5 The Vocation of a Gospel Community
	6 In Service and Sacrifice: Faithful-Work Indicators
	7 Faithful-Work Praxis in Vietnamese Diasporic Communities of Faith
4 Reading Paul: Faith, Work and Poverty
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Bosch: the Mission of the Whole People of God
	3 Galatians: Faith Working Itself through Love in Community
	4 Romans (1): Transforming Image-bearing
	5 Romans (2): Transforming Missional Community
	6 Doing Good Among the Poor in Asia
	7 Poverty Is about God’s Image-Bearers Becoming Non-persons
	8 Whole-Life Witness to Christ
	9 Final Reflections
5 Competing with Purpose: Transforming Care in a Care-Less Market
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Transforming Mission
	3 The Bottom Line
	4 Mandates for Shalom and Salvation
	5 Competition?
	6 Reframing Competition
	7 A Better Story
	8 Jesus as Exemplar Health Worker
	9 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
Part 2: Church and World
	Introduction to Part 2
6 Towards Transforming Faith and Work in Lausanne Congress Evangelicalism (and Ecumenism) 1974–2004
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Ecumenism and Evangelicalism’s Long Journeys towards Integral Mission of Faith and Work
	2 Stott Holding Together Evangelism – Social Concern Tensions of Lausanne Covenant
	3 Diverging Evangelical and Ecumenical Missions: Pattaya and Melbourne
		3.1 Edinburgh 1910—Lausanne 1974—Pattaya/Melbourne/Edinburgh 1980—Manila 1989—Pattaya 2004—Capetown 2010
	4 Missional Church or People of God?
	5 Lausanne II—Manila 1989: Two Great Mandates
	6 Correcting Pattaya 1980: Marketplace Ministry Pattaya Forum 2004
	7 Missio Trinitas and the Transforming of Work
	8 Conclusion
7 Igniting Mission in the Marketplace: Imagining Clergy and Laity at Work Together
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Two Gaps
		1.2 Church in the World
	2 Entrepreneurial Church Planting as a Fresh Expression
	3 The Basis for Entrepreneurial Church Planters
		3.1 Biblical Precedent
		3.2 Missiological and Historical Background
	4 Contemporary Examples of ECP Churches and Planters
		4.1 Artist (Abstract Explorer)
		4.2 Social Scientist (Concrete Explorer)
		4.3 Evangelist (Abstract Connecter)
		4.4 Builder (Concrete Connecter)
	5 Broader Insights from ECP Examples
		5.1 Outer Gap
		5.2 Inner Gap
	6 Further Reduction of the Gaps
		6.1 Teams
		6.2 Ecclesiastical Innovation
		6.3 Adjacent Possible
	7 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
8 Worship, Work and Witness: Action Research in a Local Church
	Abstract
	1 Life Beyond Sunday: Action Research in a Local Church
	2 The Reforming of Faith and Work
	3 Methodology
	4 Beginning Conversations through Gathered Sunday Prayer
	5 Relocating Conversations through Scattered Weekday Prayer Resources
	6 Work and Witness: Conversational Formation in God@work Discernment Groups
	7 Action Discerned
	8 Conclusion
9 Setting God’s People Free: the Apostolate of the Laity
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Missiological Exploration
	2 Disseminating the Program
		2.1 Implementation at a Parish Level
	3 St Edmund’s and the Lived Experience
	4 Is the Crux of the Challenge One of Theological Engagement?
		4.1 The Laity, Theological Praxis, and the Holy Spirit
		4.2 The Laity, Theological Practice and Mission: Service (Diakonia) and Witness (Evangelism)
	5 The Way Forward for the People of God
Part 3: Ministry of Laity
	Introduction to Part 3
10 Faith, Work and Economics: a Mission to the Church, a Mission of the Church
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Faith, Work and the Local Church
	3 Faith, Work and Economics
	4 Faith, Work and Economics as Mission: a Theological Reflection
11 More Than Technique: the Professions as Missional Vocations
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Notion of Profession
	3 The Problems of Profession
	4 A Defence (of Sorts) of ‘Profession’
	5 Medicine as a Missional Profession
	6 Caveats and Conclusions
12 Formed to be on a Mission for God in the Workplace: Doctors and Teachers’ Perspectives
	Abstract
	Key Words
	1 Introduction
	2 Why are Churches Reluctant to Equip the Whole People of God for the Mission of God in the Whole World?
	3 What Can Churches Do to Equip the Whole People of God in Mission?
	4 Results of the Interviews
	5 Discussion
		5.1 Gender
		5.2 Age
		5.3 Years Working
		5.4 Years as a Christian
		5.5 Church Affiliation
	6 How Do We Respond?
	7 Conclusion
13 Expressing Faith in the Secular Workplace: Australian Youth Workers
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Christian Youth Workers in Missiological and Workplace Context
		2.1 The Missio Dei, Youth Ministry, and Youth Work
		2.2 Mission as Ministry by the Whole People of God
		2.3 The Contemporary Australian Youth Work Workplace
	3 Research Project
	4 Findings
		4.1 Disclosing Christian Identity
		4.2 Inevitable Representatives
		4.3 Ethical and Collegiate Practice
		4.4 Prayer
		4.5 Conversations about Faith
	5 Conclusion
Part 4: Ordained Ministry
	Introduction to Part 4
14 Liberation and Idolatry at Work: God’s Judgement and Mercy in Covenant Faithfulness
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Vocation: Judgement and Confession, Mercy and New Life
	2 Finding God in all Things: the Gift of God’s Judgement
	3 The Reign of God: a Spirituality of Wholeness
	4 Made for Work in God’s Image(s)
	5 ‘We Don’t Move in Straight Lines’
	6 Judgement and Mercy
	Acknowledgment
15 Faith in Action: Entrepreneurship and the Local Church
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 The Need for Entrepreneurship
	2 Theology of Work and Entrepreneurship
	3 The Value of Partnerships and Sponsors
	4 Course Design and Objectives
	5 Themes
		5.1 Curriculum Focused on the Theology of Work
		5.2 The Importance of Relationships
		5.3 Broad Value of Business and Entrepreneurship Training
	6 What I Would Do Differently?
	7 Conclusion and Future Directions
16 Professionals in Hospital Chaplaincy Provision
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Three Models: a Broad Description
	3 Democratization and Ministry of the Whole People of God
	4 Looking Forward
	5 Conclusions
17 Australians at Play: Entertainment Precincts as a Context for Mission
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Mission in the Secular City
	2 Defining Street Chaplains as Missionaries
	3 Secularity in Western Culture
	4 The Nature of the Secular City
	5 The First Element: a Suburban Conduit to Urban Involvement
		5.1 The Unique Role of Suburban Christians
		5.2 Developing Confidence for Mission in a Public Place
		5.3 A Unifying Missional Framework
		5.4 Issues for Christians in Teams
	6 The Second Element: How Power Works in a Secular City
		6.1 Power and the Christian Faith
		6.2 A Doorway to God’s Actions
		6.3 Humility as a Testimony
		6.4 It Is a Grace upon the Receiver
	7 A Third Element: Play as a Place for Mission
	8 The Fourth Element: Engagement in Secular and Missional Tensions
	9 Summary
Part 5: Maturation
	Introduction to Part 5
18 Newbigin Bridging Ecumenical and Evangelical Faith
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Developments towards the Missional Church and Faith and Work Movements and Newbigin’s Involvement
		2.1 The Lay Ministry Era before the 1980s
		2.2 The Faith at Work Movement 1990 Onwards
	3 Newbigin as Bridge Builder between FAW and Missional, Evangelical and Ecumenical Churches
		3.1 Newbigin’s Unique Ecumenical Missional Church Experience and Theology of Work
		3.2 Spheres of Creation and Mission: Newbigin and Lausanne III Cape Town 2010
			3.2.1 CC Part I—For the Lord We Love: the Cape Town Confession of Faith
			3.2.2 CC Part II: for the World We Serve: the Cape Town Call to Action
	4 Lausanne Cape Town III and Today’s Missional Workplace Challenges
	5 Conclusion: Every Sphere of Creation
19 Co-Creation and Work in an Increasingly Technological World
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 The Field of God’s Mission
	3 The Nature of Mission
	4 Flourishing through Co-creation
	5 Technologies within Mission
	6 Conclusion
20 Beyond Boredom: Being Human in a Post-Work World
	Abstract
	1 Crossing Boundaries and the Missio Dei
	2 A New Day
	3 Meaning-Making Machines
	4 Theology of Leisure
	5 Concern #1: Transforming Work in Time for Its Demise
	6 Concern #2: Leisurely Exploitation
	7 Still Imago Dei
21 Securing Foundations: Some Learnings from Indigenous Christians
	Abstract
	Keywords
	1 Introduction
	2 Re-setting the Table
	3 Challenges from Indigenous Australians
	4 Revisiting Approaches and Practice for a Workplace Spirituality
	Acknowledgment
22 Conclusion: Shifts and Liminalities in Transforming Work
	1 Weaving the Transforming of Work
	2 A Grassrooted Frame of Work
	3 Kaleidoscope of Themes and Chapters
		3.1 A Frame of Work Transformed – Christ in the World
		3.2 Moving beyond Dualism – Church in the World
		3.3 Serving the Baptised Who Serve Their World – Ministry of the Laity
		3.4 Towards Grassroots Refocusing of Ordained Ministry
		3.5 A Maturing Frame of Work
	4 A Missiology after Bosch
	5 Paradigms, Shifts and Liminalities in Transforming Mission
	References
Index