Practice Movements in Global Information Culture: Looking Back to McGavran and Finding a Way Forward

Abstract

This article explores Donald McGavran's writings for resources that enable mission engagement today in the culture of late modernity. There is, indeed, much of value in McGavran's 1955 classic, The Bridges of God, among other writings. With these resources in hand, the author situates McGavran within the socio-cultural changes of the twentieth century. Adding deterritorialization to people movement theory enables the formulation of a theory that maintains the dynamics of mission within spaces where people are no longer associated with particular places or cultures. If mission stations represent mission engagement in modernity, and people movements in postmodernity, the author proposes practice movements as a viable way forward for mission in global information culture.