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Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross (eds), Mission in the 21st Century. Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, USA, 2008, 219 pp.
The 21st century has begun with a bang and not with a whimper. The winds of change have become a gale. The old order of Western hegemony has gone and things will never be the same again. Yet Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. The goal of missions is still the glory of God. The church still exists by mission as fire exists by burning and "mission is prior to the church, and constitutive of its very existence". Mission is indeed "the mother of the church and the mission-first agenda is the chief marker of discipleship in today's world. This applies whether in Aotearoa New Zealand with someone just released from prison living in your house, or in Congo amidst violence, anarchy,...
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