Mission and the Unity of the Church - Leander S. Harding
Mission and the Unity of the Church
By The Rev. Leander S. Harding, Ph.D.
http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2012/04/06/mission-and-the-unity-of-the-church/
April 6, 2012
"Mission" is often proposed as a source of unity for our divided church. I put "mission" in quotation marks because it is a word that is used as though everyone knows what it means. In the vernacular of The Episcopal Church, mission, with very rare exceptions, means something the church does in the community to address problems of human need. A soup kitchen is mission. A homeless shelter is mission. Advocacy on behalf of migrant workers is mission. The millennium development goals adopted by the United Nations are put forward as banners of mission around which the church can unite both in the United States and across the Anglican Communion.
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By The Rev. Leander S. Harding, Ph.D.
http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2012/04/06/mission-and-the-unity-of-the-church/
April 6, 2012
"Mission" is often proposed as a source of unity for our divided church. I put "mission" in quotation marks because it is a word that is used as though everyone knows what it means. In the vernacular of The Episcopal Church, mission, with very rare exceptions, means something the church does in the community to address problems of human need. A soup kitchen is mission. A homeless shelter is mission. Advocacy on behalf of migrant workers is mission. The millennium development goals adopted by the United Nations are put forward as banners of mission around which the church can unite both in the United States and across the Anglican Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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