Date First Published:
2021
Resource Type:
Thesis/dissertation
Topics / Themes:
Church planting, Community life (church), Discipleship
ISBN or similar
9798516961588
Overview:
Developing Healthy MBB Community: An Analysis of Relationships between Muslim Background Believers
The research project systematically explores the challenges and offers practical solutions so that BMBs could have an indigenous community of believers who can disciple others and plant more churches.
Content:
The purpose of this project was to identify reasons why BMBs, remaining in their own Muslim context, struggle to form healthy relationships with one another and to discover the best methods for relationship building and community formation that lead to healthy BMB church plants. The study shows that fear that family members or others in society would find out about their conversion and lack of well-defined methods for gathering BMBs are the biggest obstacles for developing healthy relationships among BMBs. The study also indicates that having fun social relationships and meeting in a church building are best practices for gathering BMBs. Besides, the inquiry highlights that church planters should take risks (try new things) and persevere as they try to bring together BMBs together. The research partially reflects BMBs voices, experiences, and perspectives and is explicitly related to BMBs’ discipleship and church planting.
Academic Discipline
Missiology
Academic Framework
Research Method
Other Qualitative, Survey Data Analysis and Estimation
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