Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
First Advisor
Daniel Anderson
Second Advisor
Alvin Luedke
Abstract
This Participatory Action Research study, utilizing a sequential explanatory mixed methods design, investigates the hostile relationship between the church and its Liberian context. The research design created a spirit of collaboration between the PAR team, local church, and the neighbors, and assisted us to outline interventions which positively affected the relationship between the church and her neighbors. The results indicate that to deal with this adaptive challenge and enhance interpersonal relationship with neighbors, the church had to provide adaptive leadership, break boundaries, participate in incarnational ministries, and cultivate several missional practices to affect neighborliness and bring about a cultural change.
Recommended Citation
Tamba, Abenda F., "Cultivating the Practice of Neighborliness: A Missional Practice of Living in a Perichoretic Relationship with Neighbors" (2020). Doctor of Ministry Theses. 62.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/dmin_theses/62