“the sent ones” fill up what is lacking by showing Jesus’s superior value and pointing to his sufferings in their own. So the call to finish the mission is unavoidably a call for martyrs—not a call for kamikazes but a call for missionaries bent on Jesus’s worldwide fame and satisfied so deeply in him that they can say with Esther, “If I perish, I perish” (Est. 4:16) and with Paul, “To die is gain” (Phil. 1:21). The power for life-reorienting giving for missions and life-risking
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