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Article: Inside Harare - compassion and calling.(Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1998)
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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The story of Pentecost is a helpful guidepost for discussing the era of mission represented by the WCC's 'jubilee' assembly. The relevance of Pentecost for the Harare assembly goes beyond the obvious fact that people of many languages and customs were gathered in one place. The relevance corresponds to what I saw as the two major emphases of our efforts in Harare:
1) our response to the compassionate love of God in Jesus Christ, and
2) our concerns about ecclesiology, how we are to 'be church', and what structures and patterns we will use.
1) Pentecost and the response to God's compassion
At the centre of our life and worship in Harare ...