Missional Theology: Concepts of the missio Dei – Pt 2
Here are several seminal statements about the church from Karl Barth’s "Church
Dogmatics" as cited in the book, The Witness of God; The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth and the Nature of Christian Community .
“The community is alive, there, and only they are, where she
is engaged in recruitment and when she strives for this recruitment especially
in the apparently darkest areas of the world: in places where the Gospel is
still completely unknown or completely rejected, in medio inimicorum. The community is this such a missionary
community, or she is not the Christian community.”