{"id":6176,"date":"2021-05-03T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2021-05-09T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T17:02:44","slug":"the-five-marks-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-five-marks-of-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Marks of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1518.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mark-of-mission.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-thumbnail wp-image-6178 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mark-of-mission-150x150.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mark-of-mission-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20150%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mark-of-mission-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mark-of-mission-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The five marks of mission have been developed by the Anglican Consultative Council since 1984. Since then, they have been widely adopted as an understanding of what contemporary mission is about.<br \/>\nThe marks were adopted by the General Synod of the Church of England in 1996 and many dioceses and other denominations used them as the basis of action plans and creative mission ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Some churches abbreviate the five marks to five words: TELL \u2013 TEACH \u2013 TEND \u2013 TRANSFORM \u2013 TREASURE.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the ACC added wording to the fourth mark, to include the<br \/>\nneed for Christians to challenge violence and work for peace.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>To teach, baptise and nurture new believers<\/li>\n<li>To respond to human need by loving service<\/li>\n<li>To seek to transform unjust structures of society,<\/li>\n<li>to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation.<\/li>\n<li>To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">www.anglicancommunion.org\/ministry\/mission\/fivemarks.cfm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cc-home-page","category-mission-evangelism","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}