Rethinking the use of disruptive pop-up encounters for transformation: A missional reading of Acts 8:26–40

Socio-economic, political and religious pop-ups are a normal feature in the global context. While some are disruptive and annoying, others can be very useful. This article, through a missional reading of Acts 8:26–40, seeks to draw missiological lessons from disruptive pop-up encounter(s) in this te...

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Main Author: Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: Missiology
Year: 2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 184-195
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Rethinking
B Missional
B disruptive pop-up
B Acts 8:26–40
B encounters
B Transformation (motif)
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Summary:Socio-economic, political and religious pop-ups are a normal feature in the global context. While some are disruptive and annoying, others can be very useful. This article, through a missional reading of Acts 8:26–40, seeks to draw missiological lessons from disruptive pop-up encounter(s) in this text. A missional reading of Acts 8:26–40 discovered that the Holy Spirit is not only the author of Christian mission, but also the pop-up Spirit of God, who prompted pop-up encounters between two strangers whose pop-up experience became an encounter that transformed their search for meaning, understanding, transformative ecclesiologies and the praxes thereof. Therefore, disruptive pop-up encounters, creatively embraced and used, are able to generate encountering conversations that are liberating and transforming.
ISSN:2051-3623
Contains:Enthalten in: Missiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00918296211003516