Source: Mission Frontiers, September-October 2021
The world is a very different place than it was nearly 50 years ago when the people group paradigm was birthed. Should the missions community still view the world as a waffle? Is traditional ethnolinguistic people group thinking still relevant?
The current issue of Mission Frontiers addresses how the waffle barriers are changing. Global trends are creating new social dynamics and changing both the barriers and boundaries by which groups are defined. New hybrid, trans-national and dynamic groupings must be considered.
Read Mission Frontiers. You might want to start with Dan Scribner’s editorial, but don’t miss the articles from Asian, African, and Latin American voices sharing how people group thinking and information have impacted their ministries.
See also a conversation with Dave Datema on The Universal Particularism of Panta Ta Ethne (The Mission Matters Podcast) or read Len Bartlotti’s 2020 article challenging the model, Reimagining and Re-envisioning People Groups (International Journal of Frontier Missiology).