{
  "title": "Mission Reduced to Social Improvement",
  "slug": "mission-reduced-to-social-improvement",
  "url": "/modern-traditions-of-men/mission-reduced-to-social-improvement/",
  "category": "Public Witness and Culture",
  "severity": 3,
  "severity_label": "Level 3 - Serious doctrinal or moral error",
  "summary": "Social improvement may be good, but it is not the mission Christ gave the church. Mission includes witness, repentance, faith, baptism, teaching, and obedience to Christ.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Matt 28:18-20",
    "Luke 24:46-47",
    "Acts 1:8",
    "Rom 10:13-17",
    "Col 1:28"
  ],
  "key_terms": "apostello [send]; martys [witness]; kerusso [proclaim]; disciple [learner under Christ]",
  "related_topics": [
    "compassion-ministries-detached-from-repentance-and-gospel-proclamation",
    "just-preach-the-gospel-used-to-avoid-moral-witness",
    "cultural-accommodation-renamed-contextualization",
    "justice-language-detached-from-biblical-righteousness"
  ],
  "tier": "Modern Traditions of Men",
  "translation_links": "NET Bible local reader links are embedded in the HTML page."
}