A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story (Biblia.com)

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There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen, a dynamic speaker and the coauthor of two popular texts on the biblical narrative, unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story....

and our liturgical celebration of them should foster this view. Our confession of sin, perhaps one of the most important elements of worship, enables us to live out of the gospel and find in it the source of life. Like the sacraments, however, it may be framed simply in terms of our individual enjoyment of forgiveness and renewal or as an act that enables us to again appropriate the gospel that empowers us to live out a godly life for the sake of the world. Our closing charge to the congregation

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