We are a Lutheran community in mission. This is our fundamental identity. We are Lutheran. We affirm the tradition not only because it is ours by inheritance, but because we believe it is biblically authentic and missiologically helpful. And we are a community.
Christian community is both gift and task.
We must work, in particular, at building our community within the fabric of the worldwide, international, and interdenominational Kingdom of Christ. We are part of a global community. We will advocate interrelationship, interdependence, and creative partnership in the cause of mission. Traditional missionary conferences will become more and more anomalous, as we scatter ourselves broadly into projects and programs under shared leadership and in international and interdenominational teams. They may not be members of the World Mission Prayer League.