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The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lesslie Newbigin, one of the twentieth century’s most important church leaders, offered insights on the church in a pluralistic world that are arguably more relevant now than when first written. This volume presents his ecclesiology to a new generation. Michael Goheen clearly articulates Newbigin’s missionary understanding of the church and places it in the context of Newbigin’s core theological...

“It seems to me to be of great importance to insist that mission is not first of all an action of ours. It is an action of God, the triune God.… This is the primal reality in missions; the rest is derivative.”9 How do we articulate the mission of the church as participation in the mission of the Triune God? We will expound it here in terms of mission in Christ’s way, mission in the kingdom of the Father, and mission as bearing the witness of the Spirit. “As the Father has
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