CALLED TOGETHER: Women, Authority, and the Mission of Godin African Christianity

Called Together examines women, authority, biblical interpretation, and God's mission within African Christianity, particularly the Seventh-day Adventist context. Beginning with a conflict over women preaching at Sunrise Church in eastern Zambia, Christopher Kabwe Mukuka explores how Scripture, culture, gender expectations, institutional power, spiritual gifts, and communal identity shape ministry decisions. The book considers contested Pauline passages alongside the wider biblical witness concerning women's participation in mission. It neither dismisses traditional convictions nor assumes every inherited practice is biblical. Instead, it promotes responsible exegesis, cultural self-examination, respectful dialogue, and accountable discernment. Its principal contribution is the Christ-Centred Transformational Discernment Model, which helps churches address theological conflict without coercion, humiliation, or division. Written for scholars, pastors, students, church leaders, and general readers, it calls Christians to recognise Spirit-given gifts, restore relationships, and participate together in God's mission.