While many base their understanding of mission on old Christendom models, Christians needed to rediscover that the mission of the church can only be rightly understood, “if we see it as the work of God who has sent His Son and given His Spirit, as a sharing through the spirit in the obedience of the Son to the Father, as a participation in the spirit who enables us to know God as Father and to confess Christ as Lord, and to wait with assurance and patience for the coming of His Kingdom.”
