Drawing on the contemporary theoretical context, this dissertation attempts to consider the Christian entity as one that continues becoming only within its own faithful attempt at proclaiming the lordship of Christ, or bearing witness to Christ. These acts of faith are considered here as an entity's confession of faith and hope in and through its praxis around the most pertinent issues that are being thrust upon it by its immediate and wider milieu, regardless of whether it directly confronts them or dexterously evades. The cumulative aftereffect of an entity's praxis is its witness, and this dissertation argues that the witness that Christ seeks is not any special act, but the simple act of living with a different performativity.

If a religious entity could only be conceived in the becoming mode and never as a finished or accomplished body or being, then it would consequentially become impossible to sustain the claim to identity or essence by merely maintaining religious affiliation and partaking in rituals. Once essence assumed through religious affiliation become untenable, the most readily available ground of othering would vanish, and along with it, the possibility of maintaining missions aimed at conversion as a separate enterprise that does not require any particular regard for the witness of the communions.

The different conception of entity is being sought with the contention that the difference the gospel of Christ announces is that humans are not called to lead truncated lives tethered to repetitive acts as ends in themselves, but to an abundant life of quintessential freedom. This dissertation strives to re-read the Christian testimony as a witness of God--marturion Dei--that simultaneously reveal who God will be, and the becoming of humans that pleases God--the marturia or the witness of the disciples.