Network of people who observe Christianity in their own way
In Christian missiology, an insider movement is a group or network of people from a non-Christian religion who consider themselves followers of Jesus while remaining relationally, culturally and socially a part of the religious community of their birth. Though members of insider movements do not typically join Christian churches in their area or region, they may see themselves as part of the wider Body of Christ. It has been observed that as members of these groups follow Jesus and the Bible, they personally reject, reinterpret, or modify the non-biblical beliefs found in their religious communities. This process makes them different in some ways from their co-religionists, yet when groups can faithfully follow Jesus without formally disassociating themselves from their religious communities, insider movements can occur. Such movements have been observed among a number of religious groups, most notably among Jews, Muslims and Hindus.
Since the 1990s there has been considerable debate among students of missiology as to whether there can truly be faithful followers of Jesus who remain vitally within their former religious culture. Many observers of insider movements have concluded in the affirmative based largely upon their personal relationships with these followers of Jesus. Critics of insider movements are extremely skeptical that persons or groups can effectively reject or modify non-Biblical beliefs and practices within their cultural/religious communities due to the strong social and spiritual pressure of those communities. Therefore, critics believe that any attempt to stay within a non-Christian religious community will lead to a blending of religious beliefs that is syncretistic, untenable, or heretical. (See essentialist view of world religions below).[1]
^Joseph Cumming, "Muslim Followers of Jesus?" Christianity Today, December 2009 http://www.christianitytoday.com/globalconversation/december2009/ and Timothy Tennent, "Followers of Jesus in Islamic Mosques," IJFM 23:3 (July-Sept 2006), pp. 101-115 http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/23_3_PDFs/Tennent.pdf, and other articles in St. Francis Magazine, http://www.stfrancismagazine[permanent dead link]
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