The Mission of God in the Light of the Prophetic Text

Mission Studies, 2009

Fundamentally, our mission (if it is biblically informed and validated) means our committed participation as God's people, at God's invitation and command, in God's own mission within the history of God's world for the redemption of creation. (22-23

E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies (ERATS), 2020

This paper delineates the theological framework of the Isaianic theology of mission and how mission contributes to the overall theology of Isaianic literature. In the theological synthesis, the investigation established that there is a connection between YHWH, His attributes, mission, Israel, and the nations. The article revealed how YHWH relates to His mission and creation as well as to His redemptive purpose for all humanity. The abundant evidence in Isaianic literature concerning the theology of mission is related to the realization that YHWH’s redemptive or salvific plans and work are inescapable when His mission to all humanity is a concern. When these are misjudged, a disconnect between YHWH’s attributes and His redemptive purpose for the peoples of the whole universe occurs. YHWH has established an inseparable union between His mission and salvation to all humanity. Through the mission theology, Isaiah’s language of redemption is sharpened, and the tenor of his salvific purpose espoused.

N/A, 2018

This is the third chapter in the book that I am preparing for publication, "The Advancement of the Missio Dei in the 21st Century".It contends about old habits of even specialists (Theologians) in the past regarding the marginalization of the discipline of Missiology. However, nowadays, missiology not only was accepted at the round table of theology, but also it is in many colleges understood like the middle part that spins the wheel and its spokes. The chapter is trying to answer this dilemmatic question, "Is there a Biblical basis of mission or a missional basis for the Bible, which is itself a by-product of mission. The concept of mission of God is defined and the illustration comes from the Abraham missionary paradigm, that remains forever the link that assembles most of the big topics of the Bible.

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies, 2008

In theological and missionary circles there is a growing tendency to look for a valid justification of mission. The Bible is searched and most scholars identify several passages in the New Testament as “commissions” for mission. However, mission seems to be present in the Old Testament, too, but scholars do not seem to find an equivalent command to go to the ends of the world. Charles Scobie expresses this widespread belief emphasizing “the almost total absence from the Old Testament of any concern that the people of Israel should actively go out and share their knowledge of the one true God with the other nations of mankind” (1992:286). For a long time scholars agreed that “there is a Christian mission in the true sense of the word only after the resurrection of Jesus. . . . In the Old Testament there is no mission in the real sense” (Hahn 1965:9, 20). David Bosch in his magnum opus, Transforming Mission, dedicates only four pages to mission in the Old Testament. For him mission is...

Biblical Theology of Mission, 2021

The Christian Church's existence over the past two-thousand years has largely depended on continuous reflection on the nature of the Church (ecclesiology), the nature of Christ (Christology), the nature of salvation (soteriology). Each of these carries great importance and have evolved globally throughout Christian history

2003

International Review of Mission

This article offers a critical reflection on the World Council of Churches Conference on World Mission and Evangelization in 2018 in Arusha, asking for a renewed focus on and discussion of ecumenical and missional theology, especially the relation between unity and diversity among churches and Christians. Based on an outline of the ecumenical discussion on "unity and (reconciled) diversity," the author asks for a strengthened focus on the unity of the church. She claims that transforming unity is important for the credibility of the church in its communication of the gospel to the world, that transforming unity is a "matter of survival" in times of secularization and in times of religious persecution, and that transforming unity implies a call to diakonia as an unnegotiable part of God's mission to the world. Concluding, the author asks for further theological discourse on important themes lifted up by the Arusha Conference, like "mission from the margins," the work of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), deification/sanctification/theosis, and the relation between unity and diversity in worship and spirituality. Finally, the author underlines that the Arusha Conference was an important reminder of God's call to the churches for the ongoing mission of transforming unity.