missio

I’ve always wondered why we’ve adopted the terms we have. Most of them come from contemporary thinkers, or the Latin terms of theologians long gone. I’ve always wondered…why are the terms missionary and missional instead of commissionary and commissional? Aside from spell check, anyway. We are on mission, yes, but we cannot do it without the original Creator of the mission. We are cooperating with Him in order to see His mission fulfilled, not our own. There’re all sorts of missionaries out there: missionary, transformissionary, reformissionary, conformissionary, cuneiformissionary. We have been commissioned by King Jesus, but not to go out without Him and His spirit.

On the flip side of this, don’t think for a minute that I’m trying to add to the confusion. I’m just thinking aloud.