Mission By Length of Service This service that you perform is not only supplying the
needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks
to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will
praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel
of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone
else.
2 Corinthians 12-13
The church experiences God's mission as it pours
itself out for others, crossing all boundaries to identify with the
struggles and needs, the yearnings and sorrows, the joys and fears, the
confusion and doubt, and the quest for true human dignity among all people
everywhere, especially those regarded as the least of God's children.
-excerpt from the Theology of Mission Statement of the United Methodist
Church
