Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- mission
- Transliteration
- mission
- Rejected alternatives
- a mission statement (the dominant contemporary corporate/organizational sense)
Mission
Contemporary English speakers most often encounter ‘mission’ in corporate or organizational branding (‘our mission statement,’ ‘mission-driven company’), a secularized strategic-goal sense quite different from Paul’s specific sense of gospel proclamation to the unreached.
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