The Audacity of Diaspora Missions : The Antioch Multiethnic Church-Planting Model for African Reverse Missionaries in post-Christendom Britain

The twenty-first century demographic reality of a growing migrant population represents the most important new wave of future missionaries to the Global North as Christians from the majority world cross cultural and religious boundaries with the gospel. The new transnational and diaspora faith communities have generated a heightened interest in the emerging field of diasporic missiology from both anthropologists and missiologists. The purpose of this book is to critically evaluate the theological rationale for diaspora mission strategies of African reverse missionaries and their impact in Britain in the light of anthropological realities and develop a biblical model for planting multiethnic churches in the diaspora. The Acts 11 narrative of the Antioch church carries significant implications for church planters of all generations. A biblical missional model of articulating Christian faith in a pluralistic and multiethnic context is a necessity for modern missions. The multiethnic church is not only biblical but is also critical to the advancement of the gospel in Europe in the twenty-first century through African reverse missionaries.