An important part of A Common Mission is the focus on mission as the very nature of the Triune God and thus the nature of the Church as the body of Christ. Mission is not a marginal program or activity of the Church, rather mission is the church's heartbeat. I am indebted to authors such as South African missiologist David Bosch, British missiologist, Lesslie Newbigin as well as Latin American missiologists Rene Padilla and Samuel Escobar for their great contribution to missional theology that recognizes that the church is missionary. For this post I have included an editorial by Rene Padilla that is well worth the time to read. I welcome your comments on this article. The whole church is missionary C. René Padilla To say that the whole Church is missionary is stating something that Christians of the first century would probably have considered a truism. Just read the book of Acts to be convinced that the apostolic gospel was spread largely due to the enthusiastic partici