Mission as Love in Action

The church represents the presence of the reign of God in the life of the world, not in the triumphalist sens (as the "successful" cause) and not in the moralistic sense (as in the "righteous" cause), but in the sense that it is the place where the mystery of the kingdom present in the dying and rising of Jesus is made present here and now so that all people, righteous and unrighteous, are enabled to taste and shre the love of God before whom all are unrighteous and all are accepted as righteous. - Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret 55.