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By John Cole

 

God? World? Mission? Church?

From all that we have been considering up to now, one core insight emerges:

Christian people are not called to be engaged in mission on behalf of an absent or inactive God.

We are called to become involved in purposes and activities in which God is already engaged.

Too easily we lapse into a pattern by which mission is shaped by the Church,

When our true calling is to allow our Church to be shaped by God’s Mission

The key is to get four questions in the right order:

What sort of GOD?

Leading us to ask


What sort of world?


Leading us to ask


What sort of mission?

Leading us to ask


What sort of Church?