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- Title
The Journey of the Finnish Pentecostal Mission: The Fire Burning in the Tensions between Modality and Sodality.
- Authors
Hämäläinen, Arto
- Abstract
The Finnish Pentecostals' impact to the world missions has traditionally not been very well known. However it is now touching 60 nations with 345 long term workers as well as annually with 400-500 short termers. The goal has been to have one missionary per one hundred believers (about 140 now). This study paper reflects and analyses the development of the Finnish Pentecostal mission from the Azusa type of spontaneous mission movement almost one hundred years ago to the well structured mission body today. The paradigm shifts have led from sodality to modality, and finally to sodality in modality, from traditional mission society to local church centred mission, and eventually to the well defined cooperation unit of the mission organization and local churches.
- Subjects
FINLAND; PENTECOSTALS; CHRISTIAN missions; CHRISTIAN missionaries; CONFRATERNITIES
- Publication
JEPTA: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 2, p51
- ISSN
1812-4461
- Publication type
Article