It stands for purposeful going and doing.
Mission implies challenge to the status quo and invites change.
Ever since Jesus' time, mission must precede the church. The renewal of the church is linked to recovery of this priority of mission. Wilbert R. Shenk is Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and has recently completed direction of a team of more than fifty international scholars in a multi-year study on the missiology of Western culture. The Church Renewed.