Mission and commission

Larry Chouinard doesn't post at Spiritual Conversations very often, but when he does, it's usually worth reading. His latest essay is on the Great Commission in Mt. 28:16-20:

It is a mission involving remarkable subversive acts that challenge the ways of the world with an alternative vision. Baptism was not so much a way to reserve a seat in heaven as it was a dramatization of a preferred journey.

It is a mission that embraces Jesus as both teacher and core curriculum. From the beginning our mission sensitizes new believers in the way of the Kingdom as an alternative vision of justice, the plight of others, and creative responses to violence and oppression.

Indeed.