Quote for Reflection (Sunday, August 15, 2021)

“The church is … essentially missionary. The biblical model behind this conviction…is the one we find in 1 Peter 2:9. Here the church is not the sender but the one sent. Its mission (its “being sent”) is not secondary to its being; the church exists in being sent and in building up itself for the sake of its mission… Mission is not ‘a fringe activity of a strongly established Church, a pious cause that [may] be attended to when the home fires [are] first brightly burning…Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.”

Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission by David J. Bosch