This article represents a plenary session address for the Asbury Seminary Faculty Retreat, September 20, 2019, by Ed Stetzer, the Billy Graham Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College, Dean of the School of Mission, Ministry, and Leadership at Wheaton College, and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center. The article addresses six significant trends facing theological education. Following this, three mission challenges are derived from the trends, followed by three implications moving forward.
ChuaA. (2018) Political tribes: Group instinct and the fate of nations. New York, NY: Penguin.
5.
JacobsA. (2017). How to think: A guide for the perplexed. London, UK: Profile Books.
6.
KinnamanD.MatlockM. (2019). Faith for exiles: 5 ways for a new generation to follow Jesus in digital Babylon. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
7.
LovelaceR. (1979). Dynamics of spiritual life. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
8.
LukianoffG.HaidtJ. (2018). The coddling of the American mind: How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
9.
MillJ. S. (1896). The principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (Vol. II). New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company.
10.
MillerD. (1997) Reinventing American Protestantism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
11.
NewbiginL. (1989). The gospel in a pluralist society. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
12.
OlsonR. E. (2016). The mosaic of Christian belief. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
StetzerE. (2011, June11). Life in those old bones: If you’re interested in doing mission, there could hardly be a better tool than denominations. Christianity Today. Retrieved fromhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/june/11.24.html.
