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....

Israel’s missional identity is defined by the role it is called to play in God’s redemptive initiative, as Christopher Wright suggests: “Fundamentally, our 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 the world for the redemption of God’s creation.”8 Mission is what God is doing for the sake of the world: it is God’s long-term purpose to renew the creation. The people

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