AHIARA: SIGN OF DERAILED MISSION AND PARABLE OF THE WOLF AND THE HOLY INNOCENT
AHIARA: SIGN OF DERAILED MISSION AND PARABLE OF THE WOLF AND THE HOLY INNOCENT BY Oke Ogu. By its very nature and from inception, the church remains inseparably the sign and sacrament of Christ and derives its meaning and mission from the life and mission of Jesus Christ, without which it is automatically a nullity. Without the mission of Christ the Church is demystified and stripped of its Christ-acquired and extended mystery because the Church does not exist if not to further and accomplish the salvation, sanctification, dispensation of mercy, justice and liberation mission of Christ to mankind. That mission was, prior to his birth, already designated by the prophetic oracle of Isaiah and is intrinsically implied in the name of “Jesus” as Saviour and Messiah.He appropriately announced this characteristic mission of Jesus when he said that the Spirit of God was specifically given to Jesus to commission him to soothe the spirit of the afflicted and broken hearted,