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God is calling us to focus like lasers on God's mission. How instructive, then, that the New Year always begins with the season of mission, Epiphany. However else we celebrate the New Year, and however else we imagine the church's business plan shaping up in the coming months, God's mission must be its driver, its heart and its unique starting point.