Engaging in contextual mission
In a comment over at theRubicon Geoff Ryan made the following point in reaction to a comment I made:
In one sense, we cannot decontextualize our mission out of the communal framework within which we undertake that mission (ie what tribe we give our allegiance to) however, please let us not refuse to engage with complex and nuanced matters by simply defaulting to a “well-at-the-end-of-the-day-the-only-thing-that-
matters-is-that-we-get-people-saved”.
This has really got me thinking about what mission should really look like for me here in Godalming. Although I already understood the fact, one thing that is coming home to me again and again is that context is important in working out what our ministry should look like. So one of the questions I’m asking myself at the moment is, “What is the context I find myself in here as the appointed leader of The Salvation Army in this town?”