There is something disconcerting about the modern emphasis on “faith-sharing moments” as the essence of mission. Faith is so quickly identified as a subjective thing. The exhortation, “Share your faith” may be understood quite differently than, “Share the faith.” The Christian message is always an objective one: the announcement of what Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate Son of God, performed in His ministry, suffering, crucifixion, resurrection, and Ascension. If our church is to develop again a truly missional character, we will have to heed these words of Korby, writing on Löhe’s pastoral theology: As the mission is the church of God in motion, so the energy of that motion is the Word of God, the apostolic Word. That Word alone is the energy; that…