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The new issue of International Review of Mission (IRM) presents the latest draft of a new WCC mission statement and invites wider participation in the process of developing it further for presentation to the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan in 2013.
The draft affirmation, the first in 40 years, reframes the whole area of mission and "is intended to bring new issues and convictions to the next WCC assembly in 2013, since the context of mission and evangelism has changed significantly during the last three decades," said Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum, editor of the journal and secretary of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME). The issue presents the draft statement, along with eight study papers that feed into it from key CWME working groups and networks.
Composed in a process that involved Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical input, the statement was also the subject of the recent CWME meeting in Manilla, Philippines where participants discussed distinctive perspectives of the new document, which include greater emphasize on the role of the Spirit, seeing mission as fundamentally about affirming life in all its fullness, understanding creation and spirituality as at the heart of mission, and placing an evangelism of humility and respect at the core of the church's identity.
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