Okay, Stott doesn’t use the word “missional,” but he does remind us in this excerpt quoted by Carl Henry in 1967 of the responsiblity of believers to take the Gospel into the world:

How can we become so one with secular men and women, as Christ became one with us, that we express and demonstrate our love for them, and win a right to share with them the good news of Christ?  I am not content to shout the Gospel at them from a remote and sheltered vantage ground; I want to become their friend and argue it out with them side by side; I want to witness Christ among them in their very midst.  Just how to do this is an urgent question to which we must address ourselves seriously if we would follow in the footsteps of our Master.

What a challenge this is to leave our “remote and sheltered” places and make sure we are taking the Gospel into our community with our lives.

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