Happy New Years! This is my first blog in new year 2018(Julian calendar).
I also wish you a happy and very blessed Chinese(lunar) New Year.
I was in marketplace pastoring/mentoring workshop last few days. It's very helpful for me to thing about a number of key concepts of marketplace ministry.
As mentoring and coaching is about asking questions. I am thankful about one of the presenters emphasized the importance of asking good questions during the conversations for pastoring and mentoring. Are we asking good questions about the subject matters of marketplace ministry/pastoring/mentoring?Are our understanding or the implementation of these concept and understanding of churches changed overtime?
What does it mean marketplace?
I fear that marketplace is a cultural and social issue because of modernization and urbanization. In the pre-urban cultural context, like the Jewish culture and the gathering-hunting culture in Vanuatu, politics, religious, careers and kin system are all integrated together. The marketplace is only need when they move to a trading or urban setting.
If the Jewish system was a kind of ideal model of market place ministry, is the priest system really separating from laity. What is the purpose of the priest is to bring relationship, rather than to create a kind of separation? Is the nature of priest system paradoxical and/or dilemma?
What can we learn from the cultural perspective for modern Chinese in rural setting and traditional Chinese culture and ideology? If marketplace ministry is not to bring the wholeness of marketplace, family and religious but localized, what how would be the global and missiological implementation from the marketplace ministry and the counterparts?
If the main cause of the need of marketing issues issues are cultural and social, how does this effect the methodology of research and implementation of marketplace ministry?
I also wish you a happy and very blessed Chinese(lunar) New Year.
I was in marketplace pastoring/mentoring workshop last few days. It's very helpful for me to thing about a number of key concepts of marketplace ministry.
As mentoring and coaching is about asking questions. I am thankful about one of the presenters emphasized the importance of asking good questions during the conversations for pastoring and mentoring. Are we asking good questions about the subject matters of marketplace ministry/pastoring/mentoring?Are our understanding or the implementation of these concept and understanding of churches changed overtime?
What does it mean marketplace?
I fear that marketplace is a cultural and social issue because of modernization and urbanization. In the pre-urban cultural context, like the Jewish culture and the gathering-hunting culture in Vanuatu, politics, religious, careers and kin system are all integrated together. The marketplace is only need when they move to a trading or urban setting.
If the Jewish system was a kind of ideal model of market place ministry, is the priest system really separating from laity. What is the purpose of the priest is to bring relationship, rather than to create a kind of separation? Is the nature of priest system paradoxical and/or dilemma?
What can we learn from the cultural perspective for modern Chinese in rural setting and traditional Chinese culture and ideology? If marketplace ministry is not to bring the wholeness of marketplace, family and religious but localized, what how would be the global and missiological implementation from the marketplace ministry and the counterparts?
If the main cause of the need of marketing issues issues are cultural and social, how does this effect the methodology of research and implementation of marketplace ministry?
