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Insights from a noteworthy convergence of top scholars in biblical studies and missiology. Over the past half century, it has become clear that mission is a central theme in the Bible’s narrative and, moreover, is central to the very identity of the church. This book significantly widens and deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics. Essays from top biblical and missiological...

time defined precisely by what the biblical story anticipates from the beginning: the gathering in of the nations. A second implication of the coming of the kingdom for mission is that God’s people now have a foretaste of the life of the age to come. They are incorporated into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and they are given the Spirit, so that now they share in the life of the kingdom. This renewing power equips and enables the people of God to embody the good news and to fulfill the
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