In his book, The Continuing Conversion of the Church, Darrell Guder suggests “witness” should be a key image for understanding the mission of the church. He writes,
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If we understand mission as witness and seek to be guided by the biblical language of witness, the missiologically structured theology of evangelism will have to include these emphases:
Witness is theocentric … Christocentric … pneumatological … historical … eschatological … ecclesiological … multicultural and ecumenical. (p.62)
He offers a brief descriptor of each of these and then expands them in the following pages.
Connecting mission with witness keeps us cerntered on that which we have experienced, heard, seen , touched, tasted, shared …
Could the church rethink itself in these categories? Should the church rethink itself in these categories?