Abstract:
The African church has the most growing figures compared to the west and yet it contributes
the least to world missions. This article analyses the issue of disparity in funding mission
practices between the African church and its mother church, the Western church. It then
explores reasons behind the African church’s struggles to support missions and identifies
opportunities for world missions to which the eastern Congolese church is exposed. A critical
analysis of different arguments and reports from different authors was used to draw the
main conclusions and, therefore, identify the central reason of the disparity and provide
recommendations for the two churches. The paper suggests how scholars and the church
should rethink mission, missions and money in Eastern Congo.
Description:
This research is part of the
research project, ‘Religion,
Theology and Education’,
directed by Prof. Dr Jaco
Beyers, Programme Manager:
Biblical and Religious Studies
and member of the
Department of Science of
Religion and Missiology,
Faculty of Theology and
Religion, University of
Pretoria.