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Church is missional, and has to be missional in her nature. The Lord, Jesus Christ, sent his church to the world as a missionary entity. Therefore, we can say that 'church is mission.'Since church received the missionary commission, she has to concentrate her focal point to mission in the sense of space, area, and human beings. In that sense, church is God’s agent in this world for the Gospel and God’s love. Even though Jesus gave his disciples the great commission, the power and guidance of mission comes from the Holy Spirit. As Jesus sent his church as missionary, God’s Holy Spirit empowers church for her ministry in this world with wisdom, power and courage. As Lesslie Newbigin mentioned, the subject of mission is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit has been empowering churches to accomplish practical mission in the field. Church's mission can be performed by the guidance and empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Holy Spirit makes church as missionary community. Church’s goal is mission. God is the Lord of church’s mission. Wherever the Holy Spirit is, there is mission. Jesus himself initiated God’s mission, gave the great commission, and sent the Holy Spirit to his church for his mission. The triune God initiates, ignites, and leads His mission. Therefore, we can say that, as church received the commitment of mission, the Holy Spirit makes church to be missional, and missionary entity. The Book of Acts of Apostles teaches us the model of missional church, and also shows us ways and methods of church's mission. It teaches us how the missional church can be, and what it is. In that sense, the evangelical view of missional church can be found in the Book of Acts as her typical model. The witness of missional church has to be performed in 'this world', in the sense of biblical perspectives and strategic aspects as well. Since this world is the field of mission, church has to penetrate into the world. Church has God-given dual identity, so to speak, ‘identy of church’ and ‘calling of church,’ which is church’s self-understanding. Many churches, however, do not know about both their identities and callings. Missional church has this dual identity. On the theology of church structure, evangelical perspective is similar to that of ecumenical. The missional church does not exist for herself, but for others. The structure of missional church, therefore, has to be out-worlded, and ex-worlded. Church gathers together for mission, and goes together for mission as well. The message of missional church, as the self-expression of herself, is sharing the Gospel, which includes both the Good news of Jesus Christ and of the salvific news of God's love for human beings. Church is the agent of God’s good news. The life of missional church, as showing her identity, is the living exhibition and mark of the living Gospel. She has to show herself under the life of God’s providence to the world. The life of missional church has to be a strong message of God to the world. It is incarnational, and also has to reflect disciple’s life.
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Missional Church, Evangelcal Mission, Mission and Church, Mission and the Holy Spirit, Ecclesiology, Theology of Missional Church Structure, the Message of Missional Church, the Life of Missional Church, the Identity of Church
