Evangelization increasingly references marginalization. But how are we to think about it? This article draws on a theological understanding of marginality in relation to discipleship and then on interviews with Christian leaders who have worked with the marginalized to underscore the crucial yet elusive character of marginality for personal and ecclesial discipleship.As disciples of Christ, together we are sent into the world, for the sake of the world that we may be transformed by the world. We are called to go beyond ourselves, our communities and the safety of our comfort zones where the least of these reside. Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world is our mission together with our various Christian theologies, worship traditions and contexts. Jesus lived in the margins. He was friends with the invisible of society, the despised and the oppressed. He, too, was rejected, excluded and considered to be an outsider by those with power. As disciples we are called to be in mission with the lonely, the oppressed, the poor, the hungry, the imprisoned, the angry and those suffering in mind, body and spirit. 1
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