Sunday, August 30, 2009

the church’s very nature is to be God’s missionary people.

God is about a big purpose in and for the whole of creation. The church has been called into life to be both the means of this mission and a foretaste of where God is inviting all creation to go. Just as its Lord is a mission-shaped God, so the community of God’s people exists, not for themselves but for the sake of the work. Mission is therefore not a program or project some people in the church do from time to time (as in a ‘mission trip’, ‘mission budget’, and so on); the church’s very nature is to be God’s missionary people.

The Missional Leader -Alan Roxborough, Fred Romanuk

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