Megachurch Accountability in Missions: Critical Assessment through Global Case Studies

Product Description Megachurches are of relatively recent vintage. Their numerical strength invests them with social and financial power. To whom, if anyone, however, are megachurches accountable? What role do they play as innovators in missions? How have their enormous influence and financial strength been harnessed? What lessons can be learned? What course corrections ought to be made? Over the course of a week, the third meeting of the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forum (KGMLF), held in Korea in 2015, addressed these and related questions. Combining the insights of a rich mix of Korean and international megachurch leaders and scholars, Megachurch Accountability in Missions: Korean and Global Case Studies offers analysis, critique, and positive recommendations for future megachurch engagement in mission. This book is the third volume in KGMLF?s Accountability in Missions series. Review This book is far more significant than its title may suggest. It is a missiological mine, from which readers may bring up valuable material, not only about megachurches, but also on migration and diaspora, multiple patterns of church and ministry, intercultural relations in mission, the place of Korea in World Christianity, South-South dynamics in mission, and many other topics. It deserves a wide circulation. Andrew F. WallsUniversity of Edinburgh, Liverpool Hope University, and Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Ghana About the Author "Jinbong Kim has served as Coordinator for the Korean Global Mission Leadership Forumsince 2008. Dwight P. Baker was Associate Editor of the International Bulletin of MissionaryResearch from 2002 to 2015. J. Nelson Jennings is Global Engagement Directorfor Global Mapping International (www.gmi.org). Jae Hoon Lee is Senior Pastor of OnnuriCommunity Church, Seoul, Korea. Steve Sang-Cheol Moon is Executive Director of theKorea Research Institute for Mission, Seoul, Korea."