{"id":7843,"date":"2021-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/a-sacrificial-call-to-mission-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:54:06","slug":"a-sacrificial-call-to-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/a-sacrificial-call-to-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A sacrificial call to mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTransforming our thoughts from entitlement to sacrifice is a timeless challenge we face in Christian maturity,\u201d says D Berg, a long-term worker with Multiply, the Mennonite Brethren mission agency. \u201cEach church should consider the sacrifice they must make to include evangelism as a key (if not central) aspect of their congregation\u2019s commitment to mission both locally and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God\u2019s People in Mission: An Anabaptist Perspective<\/em> is a tool to explore that commitment. Each chapter of this 2018 addition to the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Shelf of Literature explores one of the 10 statements the Mennonite World Conference Mission Commission accepted in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors from Spain, Colombia, USA, DR Congo, Indonesia, Paraguay, South Africa and Mexico bring perspectives from their long-term service in France, West Africa, East Africa and Mongolia as well as their home cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe come from diverse cultures, many distinctive spiritual expressions and different histories of mission engagement,\u201d says Stanley W. Green, chair of the Mission Commission. \u201cThis book is an attempt to inspire each other to greater faithfulness and integrity in God\u2019s mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Berg, one highlight of the book is its portrayal of multidirectional mission work. Churches in both the Global North and Global South are sending and receiving mission workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnly as we share cultural understandings with other ethnicities will the church mature in the fullness of God\u2019s kingdom purposes,\u201d says D Berg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hope that in sharing our understanding of Christ\u2019s call and our mutual commitment to God\u2019s mission within the differences of language, culture, spiritual expression and mission history, we might discover a common language in mission,\u201d says Stanley W. Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe goal is that the book might help us communicate more effectively with other so that collaboration in mission is made simpler and more effective,\u201d says Stanley W. Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Global Anabaptist\/Mennonite Shelf of Literature invites our members to participate in a global conversation about matters of faith and practice from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective,\u201d says John D Roth, secretary of the Faith and Life Commission. \u201cMost of the books include study questions, which aid small group discussion; all are deeply rooted in Scripture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commissions are committed to ongoing translation of these volumes. \u201cThis is a living series,\u201d says John D. Roth. \u201cWe are always open to suggestions or proposals for new titles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translation of <em>God\u2019s People in Mission<\/em> in Spanish is complete. 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