Commission.2 All Gospels are unanimous that it is the resurrection of Jesus that generates mission. Put differently, mission is “the gospel confirmed and universalized by the power of the Resurrection” (Legrand 1990:73). The four Gospels do this in different ways. Matthew, for instance, views mission as ministry done in the consciousness of the universal authority of Jesus and of his abiding presence (28:18–20). Mission is, primarily, making disciples, that is, turning others into what the disciples
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