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A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius"
Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/40359 A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) srg1@global.co.za Grant, Stephen Robert Apostolic Genius “Jesus is Lord” “Making Disciples” “Missional/Incarnational Impulse” “Apostolic Environment” “Organic Systems” “Communitas” Back To Jerusalem Movement Chinese Christians in South Africa Chinese House Church Movement Church Planting Movement Disciple A Whole Nation Jesus People Movement Missional UCTD Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013. China is a world force. Not only is China seen in the daily news but it has produced the largest church in the world. The church is 100 million people strong (Hattaway 2003:13). Since 1978, modern China has begun to populate the world community with her immigrants. Vast Diaspora communities have been created. The church in China shows all the signs of a Jesus People movement. In 1949 the communist came into power. They ordered all Christian missionaries to leave the country (Aikman 2003:44). By 1953 the last missionary had left (Thompson 1978:186). Mao closed the churches, confiscated property, burned books and bibles and had leaders sent to re-education camps. A time of persecution had begun. Rather than destroy the church, this made it stronger. The church grew from 750,000 to 100 million today. Can this Jesus People movement be experienced in the Diaspora community in South Africa? To evaluate this we use Allan Hirsch’s “The Forgotten Ways” (2006). In this he speaks of Apostolic Genius and the six elements that compose it. Thos elements are Jesus is Lord, Making Disciples, Missional-Incarnational Impulse, Apostolic Environment, Organic Systems and Communitas. These six elements are found expressed within a Jesus people movement. When they are all fully involved, a Jesus People movement is underway. There are 14 Chinese Christian churches in South Africa. The Chinese Diaspora community is 300-350,000 people. The Chinese mostly come from the Fujian province in China. Seventy percent are entrepreneurs and businessmen running shops selling Chinese goods. The researcher has found that the leadership of the churches is from Taiwan. Bringing everything together, the researcher finds the churches are growing at a moderate rate. The expected explosive growth of the church in China is not found in South Africa. The elements of Apostolic Genius are present but only partially expressed. There continues to be potential for the Chinese House church movement to field workers in South Africa. There has been some expressed interest. The Back To Jerusalem Movement is putting missionaries all over the Middle East (Hattaway 2003). It is the opinion of the researcher that putting workers in the Diaspora communities would be a natural extension of that that effort. gm2014 Science of Religion and Missiology unrestricted 2014-06-24T09:51:31Z 2014-06-24T09:51:31Z 2014-04-25 2013 Dissertation Grant, SR 2013, A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius", MA Theol dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40359> E14/4/198/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40359 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Apostolic Genius “Jesus is Lord” “Making Disciples” “Missional/Incarnational Impulse” “Apostolic Environment” “Organic Systems” “Communitas” Back To Jerusalem Movement Chinese Christians in South Africa Chinese House Church Movement Church Planting Movement Disciple A Whole Nation Jesus People Movement Missional UCTD A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title | A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title_full | A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title_fullStr | A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title_short | A Missiological perspective on a South African Chinese House Church in the light of Alan Hirsch's six elements of "Apostolic Genius" |
| title_sort | missiological perspective on a south african chinese house church in the light of alan hirsch s six elements of apostolic genius |
| topic | Apostolic Genius “Jesus is Lord” “Making Disciples” “Missional/Incarnational Impulse” “Apostolic Environment” “Organic Systems” “Communitas” Back To Jerusalem Movement Chinese Christians in South Africa Chinese House Church Movement Church Planting Movement Disciple A Whole Nation Jesus People Movement Missional UCTD |
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