It seems that very few churches or Christian mission organisations make any effort to consider how the context of their mission is likely to change before they plan. There is a tendency to plan as though the future is simply an extension of the present.
Futurists seek to identify driving forces for change. There is a widespread consensus that one of the major driving forces for change as we race into the 21st century is globalisation. It is our belief that globalisation is already changing the world in which we live, seek to serve Christ and think about mission. We join others and use 'McWorld' as a metaphor to characterise the globalisation of our planetary society.
In the 1990s the global community moved into a new neighbourhood, which is discussed constantly in the business community, but seldom in the church. Overnight we moved into a new one-world economic order. Two major events directly contributed to this process of rapid globalisation.
