1. Critique of Mission thoughts
and Initiatives
Joshva Raja
Session 7

2. • Andrew Kirk, What is Mission
• M Thomas Thangaraj, The common Task:
A Theology of Christian Mission
• Steven Bevans and Roger Schroeder
Constants in Context.

3. Media and Mission
Instrumental Perspective
Effect Centered Perspective
Jesus’ Mission and Communication

4. Instrumental Perspective of Mission
God
Churchandagencies
Pocketpc.ico
M
ethods and
m
eans
People
and
context

5. Missio Dei
• God’s purposes
• Which God?
• Driving Force
• Logic of Love
• Kingdom of God (Kirk)

6. YHWH
Logos = Word
Sign
word -
Language
Code
word –
flesh
word -spirit
Community of God - Trinity
Human Beings

7. Mission – Effect Centered Mission
Mission
Church
Effect
Local and Global Culture
and other impacts

8. Communication and Christian
Ministry
• Conventional forms of Communication in the
church
Preaching and Worship
Street Preaching
• Conventional means and tools
Loud Speakers,
• Flannel boards, Posters/Charts....
• Conventional places - Pulpit, street corners,

9. Encoding
Gospel
Missionary
Inclusive
adaptations
Decoding
culture
Decoding
Gospel
Non-Christians
Encoding
culture
Circular model

10. Dialogic Missions
• Buber I and Thou not I and It
• Paulo Freire Liberative dialogue
• Habermas Public dialogue
• Bhaktin Relationship and engagement
• Gramsci – organic Intellectual critical
dialogue against Hegemony
• Gadamer – Merger of Horizons

11. Missio Ecclesie
• Cruciform Responsibility
• Liberative Solidarity
• Eschatological Mutuality (Thomas
Thangaraj)
• Missionary by nature
• Election (not merit, not selfish,but service)
• KOG and church (thru church, thru world,
community) (Kirk)

12. Counter Missionaries
• Indigenous Missionaries
• Independent Missionaries
• Pentecostal Mission work
• NGOs and FBOs Mission work (SCM, YMCA)
• Cultural and National Mission work
• Charismatic Mission work
• Other Religious Mission work
• Development based mission work
• Local counter Theologies and expressions

13. ALTERNATIVE
MEDIA
Global to
local
Local to global
Cheap, available
Effectiveness
Simple, plain
Easy access
to community
Development and social
change Democratic,
participatory
Against mass
media in promoting
culture of peace,
dialogue
Promote communitarian values and Individual
freedom
Inter-cultural
understanding
Purpose
Reaching the mass but
not for profit
Fair representation of minorities,
disabled, refugees…
Taking sides with
poor, labourers in
reporting
Voice of
the
voiceless
Culturally rooted, community building,
inter religious harmony
Praxis

14. Alternative
Media and
Mission
Sharing the
Gospel
Serving
Christian
Community
New Spirituality,
Alternative media
and mission
Ecumenical
Media as
alternative
Interacting wit
Communities
Networking
different
Communities
Alternative
Media for
Development
Net as
Alternative
Media
Training
Priests and
Missionaries
Banking the
Knowledge
Alternative - Media
Education as
mission
Alternative
media and
cultural groups

15. Missio Humanitatis
• Responsibility
• Solidarity
• Mutuality (Thomas Thangaraj)

16. Hinduism
Ministry – engage in this
search for God – participating
in people’s search!

17. Church and Mission
Church/Agency Missionary People
servant
evangelist
prophet
Shepherd
Ecumenists
Diverse ministries
People’s faith and church
traditions
Professional standard
concerns for contextual reality
Transition?

18. Alternative
media
characteristics
Dialogic, democratic,
communitarian, local,
participation
Voice of
voiceless,
minorities
and others
Cheap, easy
access, non-
profit, simple,
non-
professional
Towards
Social
change,
human
dignity
and
development
Intercultural in nature,
culturally rooted, folk
culture, updated
interactive technology
Alternative
perspectives and
practices
Space for
disabled,
HIV/AIDs
infected,
refugees,
Eunuchs, and
less privileged
people
Promote a
culture of
peace and
harmony