who leads the church, or the preacher of the gospel. The church’s endowment with the spirit of liberty and the powers of liberation knows distinctions, but not divisions. The all-embracing messianic mission of the whole church corresponds to Christ’s messianic mission and to the charismatic sending of the Spirit ‘which shall be poured out on all flesh’. If the church sees itself to be sent in the same framework as the Father’s sending of the Son and the Holy Spirit, then it also sees itself in the