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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...

the missionary dimension which is proper to the whole life of the Church will be lost.”24 A church that reduces mission to only intentional activities narrows the scope of the gospel and removes the full context in which witnessing words should take their place. Each needs the other. A third crucial distinction is helpful for understanding Newbigin’s missionary ecclesiology. The broadening view of mission was threatening all intentional efforts at witnessing to Christ. However,
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