The fullness of the meaning of Christian living is more than coexistence or simple tolerance. Coexistence is not enough for the Christian life. Christian communication needs to address the wholeness of living in all of its ramifications and facets. Christian communication has to emanate from a real encounter, a real engaging with one another, a reaching out to our sisters and brothers in their diversity. We must understand and receive one another in our differences and our diversities.
Mission excludes assimilation, reduction to uniformity, ghettoization, or indifference.
Mission looks for, finds, and proposes original forms of encountering the neighbor in the neighbor's difference, as well as in the neighbor's common human identity. We must respect the action of the Spirit and the mysterious ways of God in the hearts of people. God has created a diversity which, in the communications context, must not be allowed to separate us or drive us apart, but rather be that which unites us and allows us to understand the complexities of God's creation. Our quality of living together must prefigure humanity unified in Christ. It is from this humanity that communicators must receive their clues about our common task.