Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

64 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

C. As you begin to share your new missionary calling, embrace your identity as a deputy and emissary of the World Impact community .

1. Represent the purposes, priorities, and policies of World Impact clearly and passionately; be professional and dignified .

2. Differentiate between your opinion and WI vision and policy: do not misspeak .

3. Recognize your official status once you arrive in your deployed city. Give yourself time to welcome your new identity as a missionary of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, affiliated through the missionary order of World Impact.

Recall the definition of representation, follow the dynamics of representation, persevere through the difficulties of representation, and adopt the demeanor of representation

The Bottom Line: Remember Lewis’s good kind of pretending, where the pretense leads up to the real thing.

Now, by faith and confirmation of the leaders of the Lord, you have been accepted as an emissary of the Most High God, and a missionary of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! May you be faithful to live out before others what you truly are!