Reformers notion

• The Reformers believed that the commission Jesus left with the apostles---to disciple the nations--- was fulfilled in the first century.
• Therefore it was no longer required of the Church

• Colonial expansion raised new questions

  • They encountered people who had never heard the gospel.
  • This gave birth to mission organizations which were later adopted into the life of the church.

• But mission continued to be thought of as something that happens “over there”

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