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Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference

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38. Report of the <strong>Methodist</strong> Missionary Society<br />

Working Party<br />

This One Mission statement<br />

(included here) forms part of the<br />

education and communication<br />

strategy required to meet Resolution<br />

25/7 2012.<br />

ONE MISSION<br />

A world transformed by God’s love;<br />

a confident Church motivated to share<br />

God’s love;<br />

a people celebrating being part of a<br />

worldwide family.<br />

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Participation in God’s mission<br />

and the proclamation of God’s<br />

kingdom are at the heart of<br />

Jesus’ message and continue<br />

to be empowered by the Holy<br />

Spirit’s activity in the Church<br />

and in the world.<br />

Every <strong>Methodist</strong> is called to<br />

share in this mission, working<br />

together in cooperation,<br />

partnership and collaboration<br />

wherever they are.<br />

Sharing God’s mission<br />

embraces and unites social<br />

action and evangelical<br />

proclamation as good news for<br />

all people in every aspect of<br />

their being. It is through that<br />

mission that God will enable<br />

holiness, transforming lives,<br />

communities, nations and the<br />

world.<br />

God’s mission is expressed<br />

both locally and globally and<br />

the <strong>Methodist</strong> Church in Britain<br />

celebrates being in partnership<br />

with the worldwide community<br />

of <strong>Methodist</strong>, United and<br />

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Uniting Churches.<br />

Mission at home and overseas<br />

is all one mission.<br />

The Purposes for Mission in the <strong>Methodist</strong><br />

Church in Britain in the twenty-first century<br />

include:<br />

To invite and call all people to<br />

discipleship, evangelism and service by:<br />

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Proclaiming and affirming our<br />

conviction of God’s love in<br />

Christ, for us and for all the<br />

world.<br />

Fulfilling the call of God to be a<br />

good neighbour to all.<br />

Creating opportunities to<br />

serve God in ways that support<br />

community development and<br />

challenge unjust structures and<br />

systems.<br />

Encouraging fresh ways of<br />

being church.<br />

To equip and resource people for mission by:<br />

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Building confidence in British<br />

<strong>Methodist</strong>s as disciples of<br />

Jesus so that we rediscover<br />

a passion for mission and<br />

evangelism.<br />

Encouraging a new generation<br />

to tell its faith story by focusing<br />

on explicit and intentional<br />

voicing of the Gospel.<br />

Engaging in education and<br />

training for mission in every<br />

church, circuit, district and<br />

wherever the connexion meets<br />

together, drawing on local and<br />

global resources.<br />

<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>Agenda</strong> 2013<br />

433

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