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Ekumeniczne wyzwania w realizacji ewangelizacyjnej misji Kościoła

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The main request of the Church is to ensure the effective and reliable proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. The ecumenical mouvement has been setting the same target emphasizing that the evangelistic mission of the Church should be based on the common witness of Christians, pointing at their unity in faith and corporating mission statment of the saving message to the world. It is about the actualization of the Christ‘s messianic mission through the Church. The Second Vatican Council, in the Decree Ad Gentes, understands the evangelization in the wide context as “such activity by which the Church, obedient to Christ‘s command, moved by the grace and love of the Holy Spirit, makes itself fully present for all people and nations” (AG, No. 3). The mission of proclaiming the Gospel entrusted by Christ to the Church is one of the basic elements determining the shape of ecclesial identity in general. Churches, aware that missionary nature is inherent in their nature, are also confronted with the concrete and dynamically changing challenges of the times and places in which they operate. These challenges require them to continually deepen the unity that exists between them and to make it visible. It is necessary for the reliable proclamation of Jesus Christ and for introducing people of different places and cultures on the way of salvation. Thus, the areas for the implementation of the evangelizing mission of the Church are closely related to the fundamental goal of the ecumenical movement, which is to restore full and visible unity of Christians in the one Church of Jesus Christ