Transformative Spirituality

30. Mission spirituality is always transformative. Mission spirituality resists and seeks to transform all life destroying values and systems wherever these are at work in our economies, our politics, and even our churches. “Our faithfulness to God and God’s free gift of life compels us to confront idolatrous assumptions, unjust systems, politics of domination and exploitation in our current world economic order. Economics and economic justice are always matters of faith as they touch the very core of God’s will for creation”. Mission spirituality motivates us to serve God’s economy of life, not mammon, to share life at God’s table rather than satisfy individual greed, to pursue change to a better world while challenging the self-interest of the powerful who desire to maintain the status quo.

extract from the World Council of Churches ecumenical mission affirmation, Together Towards Life. Download the whole document from here.