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Man, I love this quote:
"The congregation, the so-called homeland church, the community of heathen Christians should recognize themselves and actively engage themselves as what they essentially are: a missionary community! They are not a mission association or society, not a group that formed itself with the firm intention to do mission, but a human community called to the act of mission." Karl Barth, Die Theologie und die Mission, 118.
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Barth seems to have rightly encapsulated what the Spirit was doing through the community of believers in the book of Acts. I like how he calls the church to embrace and live out its identity as a missional community. The distinction is profound!!
Posted by: Jesse Richards | May 08, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Yeah, I don't think that Barth got everything right, but he certainly got that the church was the sent of God right.
Posted by: Rob Fairbanks | May 08, 2009 at 01:57 PM