Power and partnership: Implications of redeemed patronage in missional context

Abstract

This article examines some historical and missiological contexts of the Western conception of partnership in mission and critiques how partnership fails in the Majority World. It then addresses how power is navigated in patron–client systems. Finally, drawing on the work of Jayson Georges, it offers a contextual approach to redeeming patronage in a missional context and discusses the implications for authentic, intercultural relationships.