This article studies mission within the context of traditional Nordic national churches. In the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway, a state church until 2012, eighty percent of all congregations have formal agreements with a mission organization to support a project abroad. Given their prevalence, these agreements need empirical investigation as they provide access to congregational understandings and their practicing of mission. From the perspective of missiology and organization theory, this article asks: What do the mission agreements accomplish in the congregations, and how do the congregations use the agreements? Based on interviews in six congregations, our analysis shows that the function of the agreements depends on the engagement of individual volunteers and employees. Engagement is high when projects are perceived as concrete and diaconal and are incorporated into congregations’ organizational structures and key activities. Mission is primarily understood as supporting projects in the global south and as sharing the Christian faith with churches in other countries.
本文在北欧传统民族教会的背景下研究宣教。在挪威福音路德教会(Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway)，这个直到2012年都是国教的教会，80%的会众与一个宣教组织签订了正式协议，以支持一个海外项目。鉴于它们的普遍性，这些协议需要实证调查，因为它们提供了获得会众理解和他们的使命实践的途径。本文从宣教学和组织理论的角度探讨:宣教协议在教会中完成了什么，教会如何使用这些协议?基于对六个教会的采访，我们的分析表明，协议的功能取决于个体志愿者和员工的参与。当项目被认为是具体的和对角线的，并被纳入会众的组织结构和关键活动时，参与度很高。宣教主要被理解为支持南半球的项目，以及与其他国家的教会分享基督教信仰。
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"I've Kind of Always Been There" - The Meaning of Personal Conversion Among Youth in Low Church Movements in Norway Young Christians in prayer houses and free churches in Norway are part of organizations and church communities with roots in revival movements. Historically, personal conversion has been central in these environments. By employing a mixed-method approach, combining surveys and group interviews, this article elucidates the relationship between religious socialization and conversion. The primary reason that young Christians are actively involved in a free church or prayer house is that their parents have brought them here. What role does personal choice play, and what do the church activities and practices mean for this choice? The article takes a grassroots perspective, where young people's conversion experiences and their perception of the content of this contribute to new knowledge about both young people and the revival movements in Norway.
“I’ve Kind Always Been There”——挪威低教会运动中青年个人归信的意义挪威祈祷所和自由教会的年轻基督徒是植根于复兴运动的组织和教会社区的一部分。从历史上看，个人皈依在这些环境中一直处于中心地位。本文采用调查与小组访谈相结合的混合方法，对宗教社会化与皈依之间的关系进行了研究。年轻基督徒积极参与免费教会或祷告所的主要原因是他们的父母把他们带到这里来。个人选择扮演什么角色，教会的活动和实践对这种选择意味着什么?这篇文章采取了草根的视角，年轻人的皈依经历和他们对这一内容的看法有助于对挪威年轻人和复兴运动的新认识。
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Two discourses frame the pastoral profession in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway: one is the professional, which emphasises religion, while the other is organisational and foregrounds management. This article explores interactions, between pastors and a dean, that are situated on the boundaries of these two discourses. From the theoretical perspective of institutional boundary work, I analyse a case study that highlights observational data, and in particular, meetings and performance appraisal interviews with pastors. The research question is as follows: How do interactions between pastors and deans serve as spaces for discursive boundary work by the pastoral profession? As the church aligns itself with modern work organisations, the findings show how the clergy construct themselves and their work by drawing on both discourses. This article discusses how pastoral work is perceived discursively as both a modern occupation and also a religious profession through efforts that can be described as competitive, collaborative and configurational boundary work. Interactions constitute a space where the actors work for, at and through these boundaries by negotiating their core work, relationships and theology.
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I Apostlenes gjerninger beskriver Lukas evangeliet som Ordet som vokser. Hva en slik betegnelse sier om evangeliet – og om kirkens forhold til evangeliet, står i fokus i denne boken. Som kristen kirke i vår tid utfordres vi kontinuerlig på å oppdage og erfare hvilken nådekraft og vekstdynamikk det ligger i selve Ordet, i evangeliet, og i forkynnelsen av dette. Gjennom hele kirkens historie – og ikke minst i det kirkeliv vi er vitne til i dag, finnes det sterke krefter som presser oss til å gjøre tilpasninger av, og noen ganger også erstatninger for, evangeliet, slik at vi ikke ser klart hva evangeliet egentlig handler om. En del av dynamikken i det som skjer, er at tyngdepunktet forskyves fra Ordets egen og «innebygde» virkekraft – til fokus på egne agendaer, planer og selvvalgte virkemidler for å oppnå vekst og framgang. Skjer dette, skjer det også noe med vår forståelse og erfaring både av evangeliet og kirken. Denne nevnte forskyvning av tyngdepunkt, kan gi grunn til bekymring. Den største uroen som forfatteren deler i denne boken, handler om oss selv og vår egen tilkortkommenhet når det gjelder å forstå og erfare hva evangeliets karakter som ubetinget nådebudskap og livsforvandlende kraft innebærer. Derfor må evangeliet – Ordet som vokser – stadig på nytt få sette agendaen i våre personlige liv og i våre kirker!
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