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gme-1663	Johnson, Jean	DOES HOLISTIC MISSION GUARANTEE HOLISTIC CHURCHES?	2014	13	.doc	application/msword	4202	197	55	Alan Johnson, who has served as a missionary for twenty-seven years in Thailand and has written much about the Buddhist worldview, suggests that local churches are uniquely placed to implement ministry as word and deed within their communities: Local churches have “family” type characteristics, work primarily within their own sociocultural sphere, have a multiplicity of giftings, and their members are embedded in relationships within the community. (2011:67–73) But is this holistic mindset and subsequent social action more rare or common among local churches?	cache/gme-1663.doc	txt/gme-1663.txt