{"id":31384,"date":"2012-03-16T01:29:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wcc_commission_seeks_to_re-define_mission_and_evangelism\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T01:29:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:29:54","slug":"wcc_commission_seeks_to_re-define_mission_and_evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31384","title":{"rendered":"WCC Commission seeks to re-define mission and evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 300 church leaders from various parts worldwide will be gathering in Manila from 22 to 27 March for a pre-assembly of the World Council of Churches&#8217; (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), the gathering is expected to update the WCC&#8217;s mission and evangelism statement, which was written in 1982. &#8220;The Philippines can help take a look at mission and evangelism from the side of the oppressed and not only from the traditional understanding of conversion,&#8221; National Council of Churches in the Philippines general secretary Fr. Rex Reyes told ENInews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can help take a fresh look at what it means to be a church in a context such as we have.&#8221; The WCC&#8217;s mission and evangelism statement, Reyes noted, was written at a time when globalization, for example, was not a big issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eni.ch\/featured\/article.php?id=5538\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 300 church leaders from various parts worldwide will be gathering in Manila from 22 to 27 March for a pre-assembly of the World Council of Churches&#8217; (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. Hosted by the National Council of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31384\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,158,440,119,182,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-globalization","category-missions","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}