What is it about?
Most people think of the Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20) when they think of our responsibility for Christian mission. But Luke's two books (Luke and Acts) emphasize how mission to Jews and Gentiles spells out Jesus' identity as "Lord of all." Participating in this universal mission in Acts, therefore, is an opportunity for witnesses to "discover" the full scope of Jesus' identity and to be transformed by this discovery.
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Why is it important?
In the present age Christian mission is, in the minds of many, associated with colonialism or proselytism. A fresh reading of the book of Acts--the New Testament's only extended narrative of early Christian mission--is needed that takes modern skepticism seriously. This essay attempts to imagine participation in universal witness as an opportunity for mutual transformation rather than as a pretense for converting the "other." Acts imagines a world in which believers and non-believers alike are joined in a journey of discovering the answer to the question: who is Jesus?
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This page is a summary of: Mission and the book of Acts in a pluralist society, Missiology An International Review, February 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0091829619830423.
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