World-Shaped Mission

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Janice Price. World-Shaped Mission

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World-shaped Mission

Exploring new frameworks for the Church of England in world mission

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The Five Marks of Mission

1.23 The Church of England’s thinking and practice about mission has been strongly shaped by the Five Marks of Mission.23 The Five Marks have been used in many dioceses, deaneries and parishes as well as in the Anglican Communion as a significant descriptor of holistic local mission and as a flexible tool for the practice of local and global mission. The Five Marks of Mission have also been used ecumenically by local, regional and national churches. They have given churches a practical language and image of mission that can be applied locally as well as globally. The Five Marks provide a spectrum of understandings of mission that can embrace both evangelism and development and that retain integrity as marks of God’s mission in the world. The Five Marks have been used as a benchmark and a guide to being a missionary church. However, the Five Marks are not an exhaustive set of marks of mission and there are further issues to be considered. The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is in the process of reviewing the Five Marks of Mission and the following comments from the Church of England are offered to that process.

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