does not describe a specific activity of the church, but the very essence and the identity of the church as it takes up its role in God’s story in the context of its culture and participates in God’s mission to the world. The mission of God in the world is vast. So he has called and commissioned a people-originally the descendants of Abraham, now a multinational global community in Christ. And it is through the whole of those people that God is working his mission purposes out in all their diversity (Wright, 2010:322). Him (Christ) as head of all things to the church, which is His body (Eph.1:22-23; 5:23); Christ has the authority over His people (the church) for God predestined the church to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ; He knew …show more content…
Their ministry was to imitate the ministry of Jesus (Ott, Strauss & Tennent, 2010). The disciples were expected to have learned, understand, live and practice that which Jesus taught them in-order to proclaim the message of hope, God’s love and compassion, and above all the message of the kingdom of God. This is because the mission of the church, as participants in God’s mission gives history, its meaning in the time between the comings of Christ due the fact that the mission is that process of inviting people from all works of life to be part of God’s kingdom and become his glad servants and worshippers (Ott, C. Strauss, S.J., Tennent, T.C. 2010:91). The kingdom was driven church had to bring reconciliation amongst people through fellowship in-order to heal and eliminate the broken human relationships at all levels- among individuals, families, classes, ethnic groups, and nations which are perhaps the bitterest and bloodiest earthly curses of sin. The Holy Spirit speaks on behalf of those in