Book review: Greg Okesson, A Public Missiology: How Local Churches Witness to a Complex World

Abstract

and pilgrim principles, noting the central importance of contextual approaches. He differentiates between an indigenizing approach to mission and one focused on indigeneity (227–28). He ultimately extends the latter into what he calls strategic indigeneity, in which outside workers only come if invited by the indigenous community (228). One weakness with this latter suggestion would be concerning communities in which there is no specifically indigenous community of believers at all.