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======Calling and Mission V - Integrated Mission and Human Rights.======
Friday, Sept 18, 2009. Is mission necessary? I think that even for a non-christian it
is quite clear that the invitation to faith needs to be passed on to everyone. If there
is the living God and if he offers foregiveness, love and truth to us,
we should be told and there should be the possibility to learn about
faith and to get to know Jesus. It is on the level of a human right to be
told the gospel!
How should a mission which is strongly needed be integrated into our society? We need to
understand that mission is something given to those who believe. They are sent. So the
integration should be an integration of possibilities: allowing people to speak
about faith and allowing people to invite to faith.
Mission needs to be organized and carried out by Christians and by the Church.
The general mission command is universal for Christianity - that means that no one
can say it is not his thing. Everyone who came to faith is part of God's
mission to bring people back into his presence.
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Currently there are many countries in the world which do not
allow the free choice of personal faith. The distribution of the Christian ideas is
oppressed, training of Christian leaders is not possible, conversion to Christian
faith is punished. Clearly, we need to reach freedom of faith for all people in
all countries. This, of course, includes the freedom to reject Christianity or any
other faith. For Christians it should and will be a primary task to exercise love
and fairness and appreciation towards everyone whatever faith people have. Christians
need to strongly support human rights, since God loves humans and values them
strongly. God wants everyone to live and to develop.
Christians are told to be integrated into the normal societies where they live.
They have the clear command to live in good neighborhood with everyone, to help and
serve, to work together with people. On the other hand Christians will always be
dedicated to God in the first place. Human wealth will always be secondary. There
are goals beyond money, fun, fame or power. There is a life to gain which surpasses
our natural limits. Christians will be in society, they will work towards society,
but they will not be owned by society. They are owned by Jesus. He is the Lord.
Mission is a great thing. It is the reason why Jesus lived - he was sent and
he carried out his mission. He came to us (into the world)
as the son of the eternal God. The bible says he was there when creation took
place. But he became a human, he lived for 30 years as the son of a carpenter in
a little town in the near east. Then he began to preach and speak about his father,
about life as it could be, about the presence of the living God. His mission was
to buy freedom of guilt for us by his death - to open a new door for every human.
The price is paid, and now mission is free to invite to him. We will only be
able to make our personal decisions when we get to know him and can judge things
ourselves. Integrated mission is necessary.
[R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]
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