I was excited in reading Fuellenbach’s assessment of the “two models for the future church”–one of heirarchical structure, the other of decentralized charismatic structure–and how the two models must work together. As 70% of all Roman Catholics are in the 2/3rds World, the Holy Spirit is evidently moving within the BECs (Basic Ecclesial Communities) of the 2/3rds World. I especially appreciate “[t]he basic images it uses [for the] people of God (all are equal), body of Christ (living organism), and Creation of the Holy Spirit (charismatic entity)” (Fuellenbach, 169). My image of the Church is a combination of both models, which will be good when I go onto the mission field and will be hopefully better able to relate to the Church of that culture than if I were to only accept the West’s heirarchical model of the church.
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