The Missiological Implications of the Resurrection of Jesus Among an Increasingly Secularized World

Abstract

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is profoundly the cornerstone of the Christian faith. However, its missiological implications have widely been ignored by the average churchgoer. While many will attest to the resurrection as an integral part of one’s salvation, applying the resurrection to mission efforts has, unfortunately, been lacking. Secularism has been on the increase in Europe for some time and has now rapidly begun to influence even one of the most churched areas in the United States presenting new challenges for mission and evangelism. With secularism’s pretense for science and historical facts, utilizing the established historical evidence for the resurrection as a missiological springboard affords even the average churchgoer a common epistemological ground for which to engage an increasingly secularized world with the gospel. This articlle briefly examines the established historical evidence for the resurrection and illustrates how these evidences can be used missiologically in evangelistic outreach efforts as well as illustrate the power of the resurrection in more holistic mission endeavors.