Man, I love this quote:
"The congregation, the so-called homeland church, the community of heathen Christians should recognize themselves and actively engage themselves as what they essentially are: a missionary community! They are not a mission association or society, not a group that formed itself with the firm intention to do mission, but a human community called to the act of mission." Karl Barth, Die Theologie und die Mission, 118.
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Yeah, I don’t think that Barth got everything right, but he certainly got that the church was the sent of God right.
Barth seems to have rightly encapsulated what the Spirit was doing through the community of believers in the book of Acts. I like how he calls the church to embrace and live out its identity as a missional community. The distinction is profound!!