Question

Newbigin claims that at its core the church is defined "by its identity as god's pilgrim people on its way to the end of the age . . . ." in your own words, summarize newbigin's argument and comment on what he claims is our task while we are on the journey.

Answer 1

Newbigin's claim with reference to what our undertaking as God's kin living in this world is that we are to satisfy the Incomparable Commission, and spread the Gospel to the corners of the earth. We are to satisfy this, while we are living between "the old Adam and live completely in the new Adam who is Christ." He says "the tension which each Christian knows in their experiences between the new man and the old Adam, is, to some degree at any rate, the tension of the uncompleted missionary assignment”.