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August 2009

Steve Hoke and Bill Tay­lor have observed that “as we move into the third mil­len­nium, the church of Jesus Christ had become truly glob­al­ized, and mis­sions is now from all nations to all nations” (Hoke and Tay­lor 1999:19). With the growth of the Two-​​Thirds World Church, it has begun to assume a greater respon­si­bil­ity for world mis­sions (Harley 1995:4). In this brief arti­cle, I would like to dis­cuss the cru­cial need for this decen­tral­iza­tion and how West­ern mis­sions ought to respond