to bear the promise of God’s ultimate purpose for the whole world was fulfilled in Jesus’s mission. But there is still more music to hear before we can take up our own instruments. Jesus handed off his mission to his newly gathered and restored community, inviting them to continue what he had been doing in Israel, to extend it to the ends of the earth. We cannot immediately jump from Jesus to our own part. The New Testament offers about a century of mission history in which the early church faithfully