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Unity in Mission: Embracing Community for God's Glory

Discover the power of unity in purpose within a missional community project, reflecting on the ultimate motivation for mission and the shared glory. Explore how being missional connects us all in love and purpose towards outsiders.

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Unity in Mission: Embracing Community for God's Glory

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  1. 20 “My prayer is not for them alone(Talking about his then followers). I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. John 17:20-24

  2. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:20-24

  3. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. John 17:20-24

  4. We work together and with a great purpose in loving outsiders as much as we love each other. MISSIONAL COMMUNITY

  5. Being missional is a community project • The purpose of the community • The ultimate motivation for mission

  6. 1. Being Missional is a community project.

  7. And he says to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19

  8. TYPE 1:The Guy who Misfires

  9. TYPE 1:The Lone Ranger

  10. And he says to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19

  11. Being Missional is a community project.

  12. 2. The Purpose of the Community

  13. 20 “My prayer is not for them alone(Talking about his then followers). I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. John 17: 20, 21

  14. Unity in Purpose

  15. I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. John 17:23

  16. That the world may know that Jesus (an Insider) was first sent by His Father and because of His death on the cross, the father can love us (outsiders) the same way that He loves Jesus (making us insiders)!

  17. We all need a community, but the community is not just for us.

  18. 3. The Ultimate Motivation for Mission

  19. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. John 17:24

  20. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one John 17:22

  21. a) Glory before the Formation

  22. b) Glory that was Forfeited

  23. C) Glory that was Freely given

  24. Being Missional as a community points us away from guilt to glory!

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