‘Who really wants to be “evangelised” (and without an anaesthetic)?!’

Veronica Zundel challenges us to check we are fulfilling God’s full mission mandate

Do you inwardly cringe when someone says to you: “I’m on a mission”? Nowadays every organisation, whether it be commercial or charitable, has to have a ‘mission statement’ to justify its existence, and the Church is no exception. It has seemed to me for many years that ‘mission’ is often just a word the churches use when they’re embarrassed to say ‘evangelism’. Despite the cringe factor mentioned above, ‘mission’ does at least sound a bit broader, and less threatening, than ‘evangelism’ – who really wants to be ‘evangelised’ (and without an anaesthetic)?!