... me. Forgive one another seventy times seven. Just as you did it to the least of these, you did it to me." We have been on the mountain to sit as those who are taught. The Risen Lord calls us to obey every teaching he has commanded us. Lesslie Newbigin once noted that every organization or entity can be defined either by its boundaries or its center. The church, he notes, is sent to every nation, so it can never be bounded by local limits or national interests. But the church is defined by its center. As he ...
... Thessalonian brothers and sisters to embrace their new-found status as people who were living in the presence of “the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit continues Christ’s mission in the world. Or as one of the greatest writers in Christian history on missiology, Lesslie Newbigin, puts it: “It is not that the church has a mission, and the Spirit helps us in fulfilling it. It is rather that the Spirit is the active missionary, and the church (when it is faithful) is the place where the Spirit is enabled ...
