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The DNA of the Church: What Color Is Your Mission?
Flip through the colorful pages of popular magazines, and you
might be surprised to see advertisements for home DNA-testing
kits. With these new kits, testing for paternity or ancestral relationships was never easier. Theologians have long been in love
with DNA as a metaphor to understand the essential nature of
the church. But just as humans have genetic characteristics that
are both common to the species but unique to the individual,
the question is: What are the “bio-logical” markers of my specific congregation? Just as my eyes have color, what is the color
of our mission, our task?
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