Missional People: A Sabbatical, Sent-out, and Sustained Community

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor’ (Luke 4:18-19, NIV).
When Jesus read these words from the scroll of prophet Isaiah, he followed it up with an assurance that it had been fulfilled that very day. The implications for those listening to him were enormous. It meant the fulfillment of a much-awaited hope for God’s deliverance from a whole swath of difficulties and suffering. It sure was the ‘good news’ awaited by those living in poverty, in injustice, in sickness, in domination, and in the futility of the social system put in place under the colonial rule of the Roman Empire.

• A Community of Jubilee
• A Sent-out Community
• A Sustained Community

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