"As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."Jesus (John 20:21)
There is no question at all about the call that Jesus has made to his church: it is to live as he has lived, in obedience to God his Father; it is to go as Jesus himself was sent into the world.
Not for the church the comforts of a holy huddle, or the pursuit of empire. It is to point the way to a satisfying relationship with the living God. The church is sent to feed the poor, bind up wounds, set prisoners free. She is to be an agent of transformation - filled with the Spirit, nurtured on the Word, and empowered by God's very presence.
In a time of so much darkness, the world needs to experience as much as to know the good news of Jesus - that he offers forgiveness in place of guilt, wholeness instead for brokenness, and hope where there is none.
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