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Volume 21, No. 1Estrategias para el Cumplimiento de la Misión

DOI:https://doi.org/10.17162/recm.v21i1

Published January 8, 2024

Editorial

Articles

  1. Marco Antonio Chambi Enriquez

    Beginning and development of the Adventist Church in the Quechua area of ​​Yauri - Espinar: Beginning of the Adventist Church in the Peruvian highlands

    The beginning and development of the preaching of the gospel in Espinar went through several stages and processes that made possible the expansion of biblical truth inside and outside the province. Many of the pioneers were humble people, from the countryside, but consecrated and with a lot of faith. At the beginning they went through many difficulties, but as the church laid the foundations, the respect and consideration within the province of Espinar, both from its residents and its authorities, became more evident. Furthermore, many of those who initially declared themselves enemies of the Adventist Church later became baptized and took an active part in the church. Today, the Adventist Church in Espinar remains solid and its parishioners long to see the soon return of Christ.

    This article is of a historical nature, since the objective of this work is to reconstruct the beginning and development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Quechua area of ​​Yauri, Espinar. The study is relevant because it will help to know and preserve the denominational history of the Adventist church in the province of Espinar between the years 1938 - 1977. To do this, the few existing sources and denominational documents will be reviewed. In order to reconstruct the story, the researcher has resorted to conducting interviews with direct actors and family members within the study period. Likewise, some photographs of the places and people in the interview will be attached.

  2. Manuel Flores

    Anthropology and mission in Mbya Guarani communities

    If we understand that the mission of our church is evangelization and not culturization, we need to take concepts of the native peoples without falling into syncretism, the mission in these terms would be to achieve that a native can be completely Adventist without losing his cultural identity. This article analyzes 3 forms of evangelization, 1) the evangelism of the conquest, which was carried out under the concept of acculturation, where the culture of the natives was ignored and discarded and the European Christian culture was imposed on them, 2) transculturation, where part of their culture was taken and covered with Christianity producing a syncretic religion, 3) our proposal is interculturality, where we propose to maintain cultural aspects that do not go against the biblical principles and replace those that harmonize with the word of God.            

  3. Roger Mera Guevara

    Christian commitment and its relationship with parenthood and conjugality in a sample of Peruvian Adventist church members

    The conjugality established by the number of legal marriages performed has decreased in recent years, but also suffers the onslaught of divorce that has risen in alarming numbers. This situation affects parenthood, and especially among Christians it is noticeable in the desertion of children from the faith of their parents. Likewise, there is a decrease in the Christian commitment of active parishioners in Christian churches. The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between Christian commitment, conjugality and parenthood of married Adventist parishioners. For this purpose, a non-experimental, cross-sectional research design was carried out on a sample of 519 Adventist parishioners in the province of Callao, the northern area of the province of Lima and the province of Santa. The results confirmed that there is a strong and direct correlation between Christian commitment and conjugality (Spearman's Rho coefficient of 0.586) and Christian commitment and parenthood (Spearman's Rho of 0.578). It is concluded that if Christian commitment improves, conjugality and parenthood also improve.

  4. John Erick Xavier Contreras Condori, Marcelo Zanga

    The "Power" Program and its effect on the Use of Spiritual Gifts and Ministries

    Christ commissioned his church to preach the gospel to the entire world and endowed it with spiritual gifts and ministries; this strategy began strongly over time. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the “Power” program in changing knowledge, attitudes and practices about spiritual gifts and ministries for the fulfillment of the mission in an Adventist church in the city of Arequipa. The design was quasi-experimental, pre-test, program implementation and post-test were taken. The PLS SEM model was used for statistical analysis. The results indicated that the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices increased significantly in the experimental group while there were no changes in the control group. There is sufficient statistical evidence where the value p< 0.05 allows us to conclude that the program was effective. It was found that a higher level of knowledge is related to a higher level of attitudes (0.4754) and practices (0.3882), both highly significant (p<0.001). Likewise, better attitudes are related to a higher level of practices (0.263), highly significant (p<0.001). In conclusion, the program was effective in changing the participants' knowledge, attitudes and practices about spiritual gifts and ministries because significant differences were found (p<0.05).