Application of Lim’s Model in Measuring Missionaries’ Job Satisfaction by Evaluating Their Degree of Contextualization in Mission Field

Is it possible to quantify the degree of contextualization by numerical scores? Of course, the work of the Lord is hardly measured or even forecasted by human means. However, the question continues to be of essential importance as the author determined the title of this paper. We have an expectation in writing this dissertation that it could be worthwhile to experiment with this quantification even though this process of measurement does not fully fit with how we normally determine effectiveness in ministry. Hence, we tried to manage the survey questionnaire to keep it as objective as possible according to these expectations. First, this writer sought to discover what is the most important issue in missionary work. And then came to the process of creating a series of questions. The questions were randomly mixed to minimize bias as low as possible so as to achieve reasonable results from the survey. There were sufficient reasons worthy enough to try this quantification even though it is not a perfect one for this kind of procedure.