the requirement of neighbor-love + neighbor-service
- Filed under: Bible, books, Christianity, Gospel, Great Commission, incarnational, Jesus, missio Dei, mission, missional, missional living, New Testament, orthopraxy, sent, social justice
- Date: Feb 5,2010
Mark Roberts, Senior Director and Scholar-in-Residence for a phenomenal conference center called Laity Lodge in the Hill Country of Texas, is blogging through the classic book by John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World.
His recent installment deals with the implications of the Great Commission. Citing Stott, Roberts says:
The Great Commission neither explains, nor exhausts, nor supersedes the Great Commandment. What it does is to add to the requirement of neighbor-love and neighbor-service a new and urgent Christian dimension.
Further, he talks about how “mission” is both proclaiming and enacting the Gospel:
“Mission” describes rather everything the church is sent into the world to do. “Mission” embraces the church’s double vocation of service to be “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world.” For Christ sends his people into the earth to be its salt, and sends his people into the world to be its light (Matthew 5:13-16)
Read the entire post here.
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