You may be wondering, “What is the history of the missional church? How did all this start?” Well here is a great place to read more about it. Brad Brisco does a great job laying out the foundation on his blog. Here is an excerpt here.
The Influence of Lesslie Newbigin
Upon returning home to England in 1974 from missionary service in India for nearly 40 years, “Newbigin took up the challenge of trying to envision what a fresh encounter of the gospel with late-modern Western culture might look like.”[4] In the book Foolishness to the Greeks, he posed the question: “What would be involved in a missionary encounter between the gospel and this whole way of perceiving, thinking, and living that we call ‘modern Western Culture?”[5]
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