Andrew serves as a Mesa Scholar, a team of theological educators that teach in seminaries, universities, and informal schools throughout the majority world. We will be based in Lima, Peru once Andrew finishes his PhD in Old Testament at Wheaton College.
The Need
In Latin America, there is a significant need for trained, equipped leaders to guide the church. Most pastors have little to no formal theological training, and there are zero accredited evangelical theological schools in Peru. This leaves the church vulnerable to dangerous theologies, such as the prosperity gospel, which end up hurting the poor most. As children of the Peruvian evangelical church, we want to be part of the solution to this problem.
“If the gospel is not contextualized, the Word of God will remain a logos asarkos (unincarnate word), a message that touches our lives only tangentially. This is precisely one of the most tragic consequences of the lack of theological reflection among us–that the gospel still has a foreign sound or no sound at all in relation to many of the dreams and anxieties, problems and questions, values and customs in the Majority World.”
Rene Padilla, “Contextualization and the Gospel”
The Vision
To see an environment in the Latin American evangelical church where contextual theological reflection is central to the life of the church.
Asi es la vida... 