Forty years ago, Dr. Paul G. Hiebert wrote an article called “Conversion, Culture, and Cognitive Categories” in Gospel in Context that introduced a pair of abstruse mathematical concepts from non-cantorian set theory to the world of missiology. These two concepts, the Bounded Set and the Centered Set, sparked a quiet revolution in missions as pastors,…… Continue reading Centered Sets vs Bounded Sets – 40 Years Later
Month: February 2018
The Management Paradigm for Mission: Providing the Right Answers to the Wrong Questions
Last time, we investigated the introduction of the management paradigm into the world of mission. Here’s a link if you haven’t read it yet. Dr. McGavran was not a revolutionary thinker. He took an incremental step that was perfectly in line with American culture. It was pragmatic, empirical, and data driven. He continued the relatively…… Continue reading The Management Paradigm for Mission: Providing the Right Answers to the Wrong Questions