Mission (Christianity)

Mission means “sending literally” (Latin missio , resulting from the Supin of mitēre , “to send”).

The mission in the Christianisme answers the injunction of the Christ in the Gospel according to Matthieu:

“Go, made of all the nations of the disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Spirit,

and teach to them to observe all that I prescribed you. ” (28: 19-20)

History of the missions

That with conduit with historical movements of evangelization of people by certain Churches, which were each time an occasion to rehabilitate the principles of the Christian faith to a particular culture. One can speak five great periods of mission:

the expansion of the Christianity of the V {{E}} century with the XV {{E}} century.
the catholic missions with the XVI {{E}} and XVII {{E}} centuries.
the catholic missions of 1622 at the end of the XVIII {{E}} century or pontifical missions (1^re left).
catholic Missions with the XIX {{E}} and with the XX {{E}} centuries.
History of the Protestant missions

Also:

the world evangelization activates Étudiants of the Bible then Témoins of Jéhovah since the end of the 19th century

Theological speeches on the mission

In primitive Christianity, the " term; mission" indicated the sending of the Son (Jesus-Christ) on behalf of the Father (God the Father) and the sending of the Holy Spirit on behalf of the Son and of the Father. Ignace de Loyola was the first to be used this term to qualify an apostolic mandate in a given territory. For a long time, " mission" thus the expansion of the Christian religion for the foundation of new churches meant. It is only at the twentieth century that theology renewed the bond with the first significance of " mission": the sending of the Church in the world was then included/understood like a prolongation of the Missio Dei (International counsel of the missions with Willingen, 1952). The vocation missionary of the Church thus does not rise only from the requirement pronounced by Jesus, but especially from the will of God to be God revealed and turned towards the world. Since Christian God is God missionary, the Church as God's people must be missionary. The activity of Jesus, such as it is described in the Gospels, was primarily missionary: it was included/understood like envoy to preach, make present the Kingdom of God and sent in his turn disciples. The interpretation of the mission from the missio Dei, which makes today consensus among the Christian Churches, allows a broad comprehension and including mission which is not limited to the plantation of churches. The mission is rather the raison d'être and the task of all the Church, or like D. Bosch (cf bibliography) says it: " Mission is “yes” of God towards this world. The love and the attention of God are directed towards this world and the mission is the “participation in the existence of God in the world” (Schütz 1930:245) ".

An attitude of proselytism corresponds then rather to a certain interpretation of a theological and spiritual category. However, all Christians of various confessions, which try évangéliser people of other religions or people without religion are very often made tax with baited proselytism, to see mental Manipulation. That causes essential to discredit the religious movements " évangélisateurs" like the Pilot of Jéhovah or the evangelic Protestants , whereas the intention is obviously quite simply to apply the instructions of Jesus consigned in the Evangiles, in Matthieu 24: 14 for example. It should be noted that the Witnesses of Jéhovah, Christian religious movement discredited by the whole of Christendom, also name many missionaries, sending them évangéliser difficult territories where Christianity and the Bible are little known.

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