THE “TWO STRUCTURES” OF GOD’S MISSION

Abstract

In a different article of this issue of Global Missiology, I proposed an approach to understanding “mission” that provides a “way forward” in the confusion over what Ed Stetzer has termed “MissionShift.”  In this article I expand on this proposed theology of mission (called “Position 4” in the earlier article) and develop in more detail the question of the role of the “church” in God’s redemptive mission, re-examine the Great Commission passages and revisit the controversial concept of the “two structures.”