The Missio Dei is God’s work in the world to bring about His will. Even the gospel-advancing things that we are a part of, is God’s work through His Spirit in us. It is all of Him and nothing of us. Because Jesus sent His Spirit to us we have the opportunity to be a part in His plan. Nussbaum reminds us that the Spirit is so essential to our involvement that the disciples were told “not to begin their mission until he sends the Spirit on them.”
We can be bold because we have power in the Spirit.
When we go, Jesus will be with us.
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Since we have the Spirit, we should go. We should be like those “…who, receiving the Spirit, were driven by that Spirit to act in accordance with the nature of that Spirit.”
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