The search for more adequate metaphors describing mission could be helped by consideration of the place of joy in mission and of mission as a witness within receiving. Joy can emerge even in the context of suffering, while joyful response to God's liberation can provide an alternative to mission motives of obligation and relieving need, opening the way for a mutuality of receiving from God and others in mission. Mission images will then become less linear and intrusive, while appealing beyond liberation to a life of joy with God and a world diffusion of the welcoming of grace.
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