Missio Dei (mission of God) is a Latin phrase that “focus[es] our attention on God’s redemptive purpose and action in human history.”4 “In a sense, we might think of God the Father as the sender, and both God the Son and God the Spirit as the divine missionaries.… Both are the ministering hands of God to bring humankind to salvation and into the family of God.”5 As God’s children we are the instruments used to forward His mission. Sometimes we are unwilling, shunning the
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