This Christian Life

The Church and Mission

Last week, our pastor quoted this in his sermon and it just hit me in the face with all of it’s truthfulness.

The church exists by mission just as a fire exists by burning.

With these words, a theologian captured the essential character of the church: where there is no mission, there is no church. A church without mission can exist for a time - it might have all the panoply of a church, all the stained glass and vestments, all the clubs and societies, that many associate with the church - but all that time it exists without mission, it is slowly dying. It has something missing from its Kingdom DNA. A church without mission is just a decaying shell.

Above paragraph written by St. Mary’s Church