The Mission of God Quotes

“The jubilee then is about restoring to people the capacity to participate in the economic life of the community for their own viability and society's benefit.”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

“Mission is not ours; mission is God's. Certainly, the mission of God is the prior reality out of which flows any mission that we get involved in. Or, as has been nicely put, it is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world but that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission-God's mission.14”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

“The God who walks the paths of history through the pages of the Bible pins a mission statement to every signpost on the way.”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

“I wanted them to see not just that the Bible contains a number of texts which happen to provide a rationale for missionary endeavor but that the whole Bible is itself a "missional" phenomenon.”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

“For we need to be clear that in the Bible the conflict with the gods is a conflict waged by God for us, not a conflict waged by us for God. To be sure, the people of God are involved in spiritual warfare, as countless texts in both testaments testify. However, it is assuredly not the case that God is waiting anxiously for the day when we finally win the battle for him and the heavens can applaud our great victory. Such blasphemous nonsense, however, is not far removed from the rhetoric and practice of some forms of alleged mission that place great store on all kinds of methods and techniques of warfare by which we are urged to identify and defeat our spiritual enemies. No, the overwhelming emphasis of the Bible is that we are the ones who wait in hope for the clay when God defeats all the enemies”
― Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative