Topic: Church & Culture
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This is a post from NextReformation, and sums up a good beginning of how we attempt to BE church.
Words like “evangelism,” “gospel” and “mission” are freighted by both history and experience. If our understanding of evangelism is filtered through the enlightenment, then we tend to have evangelism programs. But if our practice is rooted in transformed communities, then all that we do is mission because we are sent into the world as Jesus is sent. The backstory to the gospel is an expectation of a coming One who will reign and bring peace. The good news is as broad as the redemption of creation. How do we learn to partner with God in the work he is doing? By becoming a people who do justice, love kindness and walk humbly. We don’t ask God to join our mission: we join his.
