Insider movements (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 2014016579: Understanding insider movements, 2014: CIP galley (Just as the boundaries of discipleship to Jesus burst out of the Jewish community to encompass Gentiles who lived and practiced a drastically different form of biblical faith, we are now witnessing the phenomenal growth of discipleship to Jesus movements within non-Christian religious traditions; often referred to as "Insider Movements"; insider movements where people of non-Christian religions accept and follow Jesus as Lord and Savior while remaining part of the socio-religious community of their birth; a related term, Jesus Movements Within, is often used in place of insider movements; There is in fact no central or singular movement, organization or group that could rightly be called The Insider Movement. The vast majority of insider movements throughout the world are localized and most likely unaware of each other. Five characteristics of an insider movement: 1. following Jesus as the risen Lord and Savior and the Bible as the Word of God; 2. gathering in some culturally appropriate way for prayer, Bible study and fellowship; 3. spiritual transformation occurring through the leading of the Spirit and the study of Scripture resulting in certain cultural and religious beliefs and practices being retained, others reinterpreted, and some others rejected; 4. remaining a part of one's family and socio-religious community as a witness, pointing the way to Jesus for those who otherwise might have no meaningful contact with Jesus followers; 5. ongoing witnessing and prayer leading to the multiplication of networks of Jesus followers, Jesus-centered insider groups and insider leaders)

A call to faithful witness, pt. 2, Theology, Gospel missions, and insider movements, a partial report ... of the Ad Interim Study Committee on Insider Movements to the Forty-First Genreal Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, March 20, 2013, viewed online June 25, 2014: p. 2121 (The term "Insider Movement" has appeared in recent missiological articles and conferences to describe a particular type of People Movement in which followers of Christ remain strongly associated with their birth communities. ... The missiological literature most frequently discusses Muslim settings, but similar groups have been noted in Hinduism and other world religions ... Insider Movements are not considered to be the work of Westerners. They are phenomenaoccurring among national peoples overseas.)

Worshiping Jesus in the mosque, article in Chrisianity today, January 14, 2013, viewed online June 25, 2014: (Can people from other religious traditions genuinely follow Jesus without becoming "Christians"? The question is a point of much dispute within today's missions world. Those who follow Jesus yet don't formally express Christian faith are said to belong to insider movements.)

The hidden history of insider movements, article in Christianity today 57(1), Jan.-Feb. 2013, viewed online June 25, 2014: ("insider movements" or "church-less Christianity." Members of such movements trust in Christ as their Lord and Savior, but choose to remain within their Hindu or Muslim home cultures.)

Here are entered works on groups of people from non-Christian religious traditions who consider themselves followers of Jesus but remain part of the religious community of their birth.