This gives significance to all of history. But we join that worship only as we strain every effort to reach every tribe and tongue, every class and clan, until all people are swept into the Kingdom. The Lamb takes the scroll and opens it for all to see. The Church can contribute to the meaning of history once we understand that life is, indeed, meaningless unless we get on-board with God s purpose for waiting. The point is worship, robust only when all peoples and languages participate.
Mission is the infrastructure of worship with eternal quality.
Let us worship then, dramatizing together why it is worth waiting, why it is worth suffering. And listen for His call for your part in mission. The Rev. Dr. Wilson, a pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, is Professor of Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and director of its Stanway Institute for World Mission and Evangelism. Before coming to Trinity, he served as a missionary in Peru for ten years and then as director of research at both World Vision s MARC and the Zwemer Institute of Islamic Studies. Posted 7 July 1999.