Abstract Mission--in the larger sense, beyond the mission of the institutional church--in the 21st century is an urgent and decisive issue. We need to prepare for a transforming mission with transforming discipleship. Together towards Life, along with Evangelii Gaudium and Laudato Si', offer paradigm shifts to consider as we envision mission formation with other parameters--with a different theological and ministerial education. Participation in the world is necessary for any true transformative mission: it is there that we learn and practise the true challenges to abundant life for everyone and for all. Practice alone is not enough: we must always question our own praxis, reviewing it in the light of the gospel. First of all, let me express my gratitude for this opportunity to share my thoughts and views on such an urgent and decisive issue as that of mission in the 21st century. I stress here the sense of mission, in a larger scope, and do not confine it to the mission of the church, since I understand that one of the great challenges we face today is to understand that our mission as Christians cannot be separated from our communion with the whole of humanity and with the whole of creation. My personal conviction is that our mission will come to nothing if it cannot speak the language of today's world, with all its achievements and problems, its hopes and perils, the griefs of the millions who suffer, the injustice that reigns in different fields of life, the oppression and violence of empires and fanatics, and the necessary empowerment of the peoples. We will be unable, as Christians, to meet these crucial concerns if we cannot find partners in a way that can coincide, at least in part, with the hopes and practices that sustain our lives, and in our diagnosis of the challenges we face and how to respond in creative and life-giving ways. The fact that we are to face our theme with this conviction, which I hope most of us share, obliges us to revise the concepts of mission and discipleship. That is, we need to prepare for a transforming mission with a transforming discipleship. The word "transforming" in English, the present continuous, gives us multiple possibilities, including the ability to see simultaneously the present and the future, and also to play with the subject of the sentence. This ambiguity, far from creating a problem, opens us to different interpretations that will enrich our understanding and, I hope, our praxis. Does "transforming mission" mean that our mission will transform the world? I certainly hope so, for there will be no point in going into a mission if it cannot change the lives of the people and the conditions of our lives. But the other possibility is also true: the mission transforms the missionary, for mission is also encounter: encounter with the other, encountering once again the Christ and the Spirit who preside with us in any mission and are at work in our world, in God's world. If we are not transformed and enriched, if we do not grow and revise our own comprehension of life in this encounter, we will be unable to fulfill our mission. The same should be said about discipleship: the disciples, as persons and as community--for to be a disciple is to be part of a learning community, are transformed in the exercise of their mission, participate in new experiences, open their eyes to new horizons of life, learn to appreciate other realities and cultures, and see new facets of their own faith and new dimensions of their relationship with the divine. The revelation itself becomes more revealing. And as long as that happens in the missionary community, that same transformation inserts itself in a different way in the world and in the church. The disciple becomes an agent of transformation who experiences and spreads the renewing power of the Spirit. The Actuality of the Missionary Call Certainly it can be said that the concept of mission has been inseparable from the Christian faith since its origins. …

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转化门徒的宣教形成

摘要 宣教——在更大的意义上，超越机构教会的宣教——在 21 世纪是一个紧迫而决定性的问题。我们需要以转变门徒的身份为转变使命做好准备。与 Evangelii Gaudium 和 Laudato Si' 一起迈向生命，提供范式转变供我们考虑，因为我们设想具有其他参数的宣教形成 - 具有不同的神学和事工教育。参与世界对于任何真正的变革使命都是必要的：在那里我们学习和实践真正的挑战，让每个人和所有人都拥有丰富的生活。仅靠实践是不够的：我们必须始终质疑自己的实践，在福音的光照下审视它。首先，让我感谢有机会分享我对 21 世纪使命等紧迫和决定性问题的想法和看法。我在这里强调使命感，在更大的范围内，并不局限于教会的使命，因为我明白我们今天面临的最大挑战之一是了解我们作为基督徒的使命不能与我们的使命分开。与整个人类和整个造物交流。我个人的信念是，如果我们的使命不能用当今世界的语言，包括它的所有成就和问题，它的希望和危险，数以百万计受难者的悲痛，以及在不同生活领域占主导地位的不公正，它就会落空。 ，帝国和狂热分子的压迫和暴力，以及必要的人民赋权。作为基督徒，如果我们不能以一种至少部分符合维持我们生活的希望和实践的方式找到合作伙伴，以及我们对我们面临的挑战的诊断，我们将无法解决这些关键问题。如何以创造性和赋予生命的方式做出回应。我们要以这种信念面对我们的主题，我希望我们大多数人都认同这一点，这一事实迫使我们修改使命和门徒训练的概念。也就是说，我们需要以转变的门徒身份为转变的使命做好准备。英语中的“transforming”这个词，现在进行时，给了我们多种可能性，包括同时看到现在和未来的能力，还可以玩弄句子的主语。这种模棱两可，远非造成问题，让我们接受不同的解释，这将丰富我们的理解，我希望，我们的实践。“转化使命”是否意味着我们的使命将改变世界？我当然希望如此，因为如果传教不能改变人们的生活和我们的生活条件，就没有意义。但另一种可能性也是正确的：传教改变传教士，因为传教也是相遇：与他人相遇，再次相遇基督和圣灵，他们在任何传教中与我们一起主持，并在我们的世界中工作，在上帝的世界。如果我们没有在这次相遇中得到转化和丰富，如果我们没有在这次相遇中成长和修正自己对生活的理解，我们将无法完成我们的使命。关于门徒训练也应该这样说：门徒，作为个人和社区——因为成为门徒就是成为学习社区的一部分，在执行他们的使命时发生转变，参与新的体验，睁开眼睛看生活的新视野，学会欣赏其他现实和文化，并看到他们自己信仰的新方面以及他们与神圣关系的新维度。启示本身变得更加具有启发性。只要这发生在传教士团体中，同样的转变就会以不同的方式插入到世界和教会中。门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 参与新的体验，睁开眼睛看到生活的新视野，学会欣赏其他现实和文化，并看到自己信仰的新方面以及与神的关系的新维度。启示本身变得更加具有启发性。只要这发生在传教士团体中，同样的转变就会以不同的方式插入到世界和教会中。门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 参与新的体验，睁开眼睛看到生活的新视野，学会欣赏其他现实和文化，并看到自己信仰的新方面以及与神的关系的新维度。启示本身变得更加具有启发性。只要这发生在传教士团体中，同样的转变就会以不同的方式插入到世界和教会中。门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 并看到他们自己信仰的新方面以及他们与神圣关系的新维度。启示本身变得更加具有启发性。只要这发生在传教士团体中，同样的转变就会以不同的方式插入到世界和教会中。门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 并看到他们自己信仰的新方面以及他们与神圣关系的新维度。启示本身变得更加具有启发性。只要这发生在传教士团体中，同样的转变就会以不同的方式插入到世界和教会中。门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。… 门徒成为转变的推动者，体验并传播圣灵更新的力量。宣教的实际情况 可以说，宣教的概念自基督教信仰诞生以来就与它密不可分。…