WESLEY ARNING

As citizens of God’s new creation, how we live matters; morals matter even in this old world. Ethical living may not save us, but it attests to the faith that lives in us. It is the natural expression (and fruit) of a faithful life. As Christians, we are not powerless to Sin. We cannot conquer it alone, but we dare not forget that we have been given salvation from it. We are not in this fight by ourselves, and we are not left defenseless. You and I are called into deeper l

So, what is mission? It is sharing in the work of Jesus for the sake of the world by the power of his Holy Spirit. It is Jesus’ work that we are invited into. Lesslie Newbigin, a great 20th-century Anglican missionary, puts it in a more memorable way: “The church is a pilgrim people on its way to the ends of the earth and the end of time.”