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Lesson 3. Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief. Missions: The Church’s Marching Orders.

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Lesson 3

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  1. Lesson 3 Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief

  2. Missions: The Church’s Marching Orders Our Lord Jesus gave the church global “marching orders” which involves each one of us. It is precisely because this mission is world-encompassing that it has local implications. Know this global mission well in order to understand the commission graciously given to Proclamation and my particular role in it.

  3. The Real Problem – The Real Solution The End Game – The Objective of Missions Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief It’s Dangerous Over There! Suffering and Persecution You Will Receive Power! The Holy Spirit and Missions Mission of Mercy – Justice and Poverty Something More? Scripture as a Guide Missions in our DNA - The Global Church Does the Church Need Missions? Summary

  4. What is your “religion”? “Religion” or “relationship”?

  5. Creator Covenant • Distinction • Dependence • Condescension • Knowledge • Obligation Creature

  6. 1. Adam’s Sin • Legal disobedience • Substitute authority • Autonomy • Allegiance to Satan • Fall: All of Creation & All of History • Rebellion and Idolatry

  7. 2. Golden Calf • They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. (Psalm 106:20) • They forgot God, their Savior (v.21) • They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known (Dt 32:17) • I have formed you, you are mine (Isaiah 43)

  8. Idolatry is having or inventing something in which to put our trust instead of, or in addition to, the only true God who has revealed himself in his Word. - Heidelberg Catechism

  9. 3. The Horrible Exchange Romans 1:18-25 • Clearly Perceived • They Knew God • They Suppress the Truth • Exchanged the truth about God for a lie

  10. Implications • Unbelief is essentially uniform • Unbelief: not consist of partial truths • Unbelief counterfeits truth • Unbelief is self-deceiving • Unbelief is cultural • Unbelief is suppressing the truth

  11. Unbelief to Belief • Not even one who seeks God • Complete lack of ability 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. . . 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (1 Corinthians 15)

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