Unfamiliar Paths

By David E Bjork

This book explains why some missionaries are being led to reject the missional models and many of the methodologies which are the most widely accepted by North American evangelical missionaries working in France.
The author demonstrates that the evangelical Protestant missionaries' witness for Christ in Western Europe is often ineffective because their governing missional paradigm and their ministry methods, working in conjunction, tend to project a separatist image and isolate them from those they wish to influence for Christ.
The author argues for the development of a missionary spirituality based upon the kenosis and an understanding of Christian unity based upon the perichoresis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781326019877

David E Bjork

David Bjork (MA, DEA, MDiv, PhD) works as a theological consultant for World Partners in collaboration with Cooperative Studies (CS) and directs the doctoral program of the Cameroon Faculty of Evangelical Theology. Dr. Bjork has published many articles and is the author of Unfamiliar Paths (William Carey Library, 1997) and Every Believer a Disciple: Joining in God’s Mission (Langham Global Library, 2015). David and His wife, Diane, have accompanied men and women in discipleship to Christ in France for 32 years and in Africa for 10 years.