{"id":21953,"date":"2024-04-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/urc\/the-five-marks-of-mission"},"modified":"2024-04-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T13:00:00","slug":"the-five-marks-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-five-marks-of-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Marks of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Five Marks of Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

I hope you have found Eddie Boon’s reflections on evangelism both useful and challenging.  We turn now to a related theme – that of mission.  <\/p>\n

The marks of mission were first developed as four marks by the Anglican Consultative Council  in 1984.  A fifth was added in 1990 when, having appreciated the missiological and Biblical implications of the creation and environmental crisis, the Anglican Consultative Council decided that a new mark of mission that captured this understanding was inevitable. The Five Marks of Mission have won wide acceptance among Anglicans and other Christian traditions and have given churches around the world a practical and memorable \u201cchecklist\u201d for mission activities. They are not a final and complete statement on mission but they offer a practical guide to the holistic nature of mission.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The United Reformed Church recognised them in its <\/span>Growing Up<\/em> report in 1999 and they are the staple of many ministerial students\u2019 mission studies.  Graham Adams, a minister of the Congregational Federation and tutor at Northern College has reworked the Five Marks of Mission in his recent book Holy Anarchy (SCM, 2022) using liberation and ecological theology themes.  He renders them as: <\/p>\n