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- Title
CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF FRONTIER IN MINISTRY: AFRICAN CULTURE IN VIEW.
- Authors
Adedeji, Adebisi G. M.
- Abstract
Culture is a language and it is equally a world in itself. People live in it and by it. Those who live in culture and by culture speak culture. By the virtue of living in culture, speaking in culture, acting in culture, they become cultural beings. Ministry is an act of involvement in dynamic activities that keep life alive and thereby promote effective and productive life. The value of life, the beauty of life, and life mission is coded in all kinds of frontiers in ministry. Culture is most often taken for granted in the operation of life commitments and it is treated as a separate entity that has no influence on life, whereas it is an important component of life and embraces it. Culture as part of life and life activities, plays a significant role in effectiveness and productivity of ministry engagements and performances. Culture enables individuals an authentic expression of self-uniqueness and self-fulfilment. Every human living being must engage in one type of ministry or the other to keep life in existence, to find solutions to life problems and difficulties, to make life worthy of living and habitable, and to provide living necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, mobility, health care, advancement in wisdom and knowledge. Culture is therefore a diverse set of dynamic ministries characteristic of all human communities. This paper deliberates on the following frontiers in ministry: Religious Frontier, Social Aspect of Frontier, The Political dimension of Frontier, Administrative Frontier, Cross-Cultural Understanding of Frontier, and Priestly Formation for Frontiers in Ministry. This work concludes with findings, observations and recommendations.
- Subjects
AFRICA; CULTURE; MULTICULTURALISM; SELF-realization; BASIC needs; CHURCH work
- Publication
Review of Management Innovation & Creativity, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 16, p54
- ISSN
1934-6727
- Publication type
Article