Abstract
Attempts at engaging the fallen world with the gospel of the Kingdom have exposed Christ-followers to the world’s pull to ignore God. This becomes more challenging when the strategy is mostly centripetal―bringing the world into ‘our church,’ rather than centrifugal―taking the Church to the world. Churches make every effort to fix the gospel message into different religio-cultural and ideological orientations of “members.” The resulting ecclesiological discomfort is palpable in the acts of worship, politics, and day-to-day ‘secular’ lives of the people, where the impact of the church is expected to be felt. This study examines how the contemporary church may confront the identified discomforts resulting from how it engages its world. Using biblical and missiological principles as well as observable trends among churches in Nigeria, the writer posits that dwelling largely on centripetal mechanism of missions is creating ecclesiological malaise in Nigeria and that balancing with a disciple-making movement-based centrifugal mechanism is more suitable for effective missions in a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ideological nation like Nigeria.
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