Missio Dei 13

July 9, 2009

The mission of God and the people of God go together as glove and hand. It is true that God sent individual missionaries to other nations to preach repentance and righteousness and the love of God. However, the missionary was the representative of God and the people of God on mission to the nations (i.e. Jonah). Individuals who are sent are always part of the larger community of God. The community witnesses to its “sentness” by inviting, blessing, and harvesting the nations for inclusion in the kingdom of God. Behind the bringer of good news, the “blesser”, are two communities: The Trinitarian community of love and the church community the trinity inhabits. The people of God in the New Testament are represented by the church gathered/scattered as apprentices of Jesus who adopt the mission of Jesus to be grace, love, and light unto the nations, their communities, and their neighbors.

The church that does not see itself and acts as a sent people to the nations, to the peoples that surround it is not a missional church no matter what it claims. By being sent, I mean what I said above: inviting, blessing, and harvesting those who decide to obey Jesus’ invitation. Inviting the community by grace (doing for the community what the community cannot do for itself, to turn to God), blessing the community through generous self-sacrifcing actions, and harvesting winsomely those who obey and enter the kindgom.

A good indication of whether a church is actively seeking the missional posture is to see what it has budgeted of its collected resources (people, money, time, and space) to accomplish its part of the mission of God.

Prayer: Jesus, make us at missional order a community that truly lives the mission of God in whatever community we belong to. Amen. Christ, have mercy.

Posted by georges boujakly | Filed Under Missio Dei, Missional, Missional Order 

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2 Comments to “Missio Dei 13”

  1. Grant on July 10th, 2009 10:26 am

    Amen, and amen.

    thank you for being a co-worker, sojourner, friend in the process of bringing this to reality at WH.

  2. georges boujakly on July 10th, 2009 10:43 am

    Grant,
    Glad to be in on a movement of God that is going to shock the socks off us.

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