Craig Van Gelder
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“The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.”
― The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit
― The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit
“Mission (if it is biblically informed and validated) means our committed participation as God's people, at God's invitation and command, in God's own mission within the history of God's world for the redemption of God's creation."4”
― The Missional Church and Leadership Formation: Helping Congregations Develop Leadership Capacity
― The Missional Church and Leadership Formation: Helping Congregations Develop Leadership Capacity
“Practices must be understood not simply as things we do to grow spiritually but rather as concrete ways in which our participation in God’s mission is embodied in relation to our neighbor.”
― The Missional Church in Perspective (The Missional Network): Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation
― The Missional Church in Perspective (The Missional Network): Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation
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