Micah Six Eight
• “Missio Dei” translates to “Mission of God.” However, Missio in Latin means
. The Father
the Son, the Father and Son
the Spirit. The Spirit empowers the
(apostles) to tell the Jesus Story (the Gospel).
• This Sending/Mission is fundamentally
work, not merely the work of the church or individual believers. It highlights that our Creator is actively at work in the world, reconciling and redeeming creation, and that Jesus’ followers are invited to participate in this divine sending.
DO JUSTLY
• We are sent to
Creator’s right ways. Justice and righteousness are foundational to the nature and character of our Creator.
•
(TSEDAKA) and
(MISHPAT) are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love (HESED) and faithfulness go before you. Psalm 89:14
• Doing justly is first about learning Creator’s ways of justice and then joining him in those ways. It’s about
in Creator’s heart for the oppressed and marginalized and restoring peace, harmony, and balance through acts of kindness, forgiveness, and love.
• It also means caring for all
, the earth, trees, plants, water, the two-legged, four-legged, winged ones, and all creeping things. It means aligning ourselves with the things that are important to Creator.
LOVE MERCY
• We are not only sent to be merciful but to
mercy.
• Justice without mercy becomes
instead of
.
• The Hebrew word used here is HESED, often translated as loving-kindness, steadfast love, or unfailing love. It is the kind of love that remains faithful and true and never changes. HESED is a love filled with compassion, kindness, mercy, and faithfulness. It may be the root of the NT use of AGAPE. HESED describes the Creator’s
and
(Exodus 34:6; Psalm 136).
WALK HUMBLY
• We are sent to represent the
of our Creator, fully revealed in his Son.
• Creator Sets Free (Jesus) is our
of humility. He “humbled himself and identified with the lowest on the social ladder—servants/slaves.” Then, on the cross, he permitted himself to be punished and put to death by a powerful and corrupt legal system, even though he had done nothing wrong. The “principalities and powers” that rule empires, who collaborate with the religious to legitimize their corruption—are exposed. This is the core of what it means to “Walk Humbly.”
