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The Holy Spirit in Mission: Prophetic Speech and Action in Christian Witness is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church has been called to participate in God’s mission in the world. But without a robust, biblical sense of the Spirit’s action, how can we be sure we’re fulfilling that call? Gary Tyra employs a biblical theology of the Holy Spirit to deepen and inform our understanding of life as the church, the people of God. Since the church’s mission to and into the world is both evangelistic and...

The history of the term missio Dei notwithstanding, I believe that a careful read of Scripture does support the idea that God’s redemptive concern extends beyond individual human beings to creation as a whole. Genesis 1:26–30 can be interpreted in such a way as to indicate that God expects human beings to develop the creation, to carry on his work of creating a world that reflects his original plans and intentions for the planet. Furthermore, Romans 8:21 indicates that a future liberation awaits
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