What the Missio Dei Is NOT

The Missio Dei is not Missio Hominum (of man).

The Sending of God is not primarily the sending of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, to the church to love, restore, and keep only it.

The Missio Dei is not the interpreting of Scripture, doctrines, practices, and ministry with other lenses, priorities, or paradigms.

The Sending of God is not the authority to focus primarily on church or polity and ignore the commission to “seek and save the lost.”

The Missio Dei is not the good works and acts of the church, of man, or of all individuals.

The Sending of God is not the many and varied activities of the churches, especially activities not aligned to the Missio Dei core.

The Missio Dei is not the prerogative of the clergy (clericalism) for proclaiming the Gospel in the world (with divergent cultures).

The Sending of God is not preoccupied with legalism or even the Divine Service as the only place for the proclamation of the Gospel.

The Missio Dei is not absorbed with and based on mere practices, or programs, or arrangements by congregations & individual Christians and/or absorbed with self-interest.

The Sending of God is not rituals, liturgies, practices, clergy-centered, missions’ means, or mere performances, as the core or essence of God’s Sending into the world.

The Missio Dei is not an adjunct or appendage to the teachings of Christianity and does not make other doctrines the core.

The Sending of God is not the creation of the institutional church for selfies, self-interests, protection, maintenance and/or for survival.