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....

Genesis 12:2–3 and Exodus 19:3–6 provide a hermeneutical lens through which to see clearly the role and identity of God’s people in the Old Testament, for here God “makes tiny Israel the centre of the earth, the focal point of history and the goal of creation.”1 God will pursue his purposes for all creation through Israel, first making Abraham into a great nation and then blessing all nations and all creation through that nation.

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