Understanding Mission Today Points of Convergence?

In this brief article, essential content from mission statements by three different church groupings is compared and contrasted. Lausanne’s Cape Town Commitment is brought together with the WCC’s Together Towards Life and the Vatican’s Evangelii Gaudium. This article identifies considerable converge...

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Published inTransformation (Exeter) Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 260 - 266
Main Author Ross, Kenneth R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England Sage Publications, Ltd 01.10.2017
SAGE Publications
Subjects
Research lecture
justice
missio Dei
Cross-cultural mission
discipleship
orthopathy
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Summary:In this brief article, essential content from mission statements by three different church groupings is compared and contrasted. Lausanne’s Cape Town Commitment is brought together with the WCC’s Together Towards Life and the Vatican’s Evangelii Gaudium. This article identifies considerable convergences between the three agendas and sees these as grounds not only for general optimism for the future of mission, but also for meaningful dialogue and appropriate strategies for the work.
ISSN:0265-3788
1759-8931
DOI:10.1177/0265378817724615