Mission (Christian) broadly means any activity in which Christians are involved for the purpose of world evangelization. But the church’s mission “is a matter of identity before it is ever a matter of activity” (Colwell, ‘Mission as Ontology: a question of theological grammar’, in The Baptist Ministers’ Journal (July 2006), p.10). What we do is not as important as who we are and how we relate to others.
Ecumenism refers to the movement towards unity among Christians, based on the idea that there should be a single Christian Church, a single Christian faith.
The Emerging Church is a diverse movement within Christianity that arose in the late 20th century as a response to the declining influence of Christianity as a cultural force in the West. Proponents of the emerging church embrace the reality of postmodernism and seek to deconstruct and reconstruct Christianity in order to meaningfully engage with Western society which is pre-dominantly post-Christian.
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Thank you again. Keep going and I may start to understand your first return from sabbatical sermon !!! (aha, yes I was listening you see!)
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