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Matthew ’ s view of Mission

Matthew ’ s view of Mission. Missiology: New Testament. The GOSPELS: Four lenses. Four ways of considering the mission of Jesus Each writer uses his own personality/ his own purpose/ his own particular circumstances to shape the Jesus-story. Three texts in Matthew.

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Matthew ’ s view of Mission

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  1. Matthew’s view of Mission Missiology: New Testament

  2. The GOSPELS: Four lenses • Four ways of considering the mission of Jesus • Each writer uses his own personality/ his own purpose/ his own particular circumstances to shape the Jesus-story Missiology: New Testament

  3. Three texts in Matthew • Matthew 2:1-12 The coming of the Magi • Matthew 8:5-13 “Come from the east and the west” • Matthew 28:16-20 The Great Commission Missiology: New Testament

  4. The coming of the magi • Who were the magi? • The story in Daniel • The story in Matthew • The story in Acts • What was Matthew’s point? • Foreign intellectuals?? Missiology: New Testament

  5. The star shines • “Gentiles will come to the rising of your star” • Science in reverence to God • Knowledge seeking the author of knowledge • The gospel to the outsiders Missiology: New Testament

  6. At the very outset of the gospel… • Mathew connects Jesus with the gentile nations. Not only Israel, but also gentiles are looking forward to the One who will sit on the throne of David and will establish and uphold the kingdom “with justice and with righteousness” (Is 9:7). Mathew wants us to know that the kingdom of the Messiah is going to have a great impact not only on Israel, but also on the gentile nations. Providentially their representatives are informed about that and as a result come to worship the future king. Missiology: New Testament

  7. Moreover, Mathew contrasts the soberness of the gentile Magi against the slumber of nobles of Israel. At any rate the story introduces the notion that the coming kingdom and its king have something to do with the gentile nations. Missiology: New Testament

  8. The theme in chapter 8 • Jesus is approached by a Roman centurion who asks to heal his servant. When Jesus agrees, the centurion displays his outstanding faith first by acknowledging his unworthiness to be visited by a Jew, and second by confessing that just a word from the lips of Jesus will bring the healing. • Jesus is amazed at the faith of centurion and declares that he has “not found anyone in Israel with such great faith” (Mt 8:10). Missiology: New Testament

  9. The story is narrated by Luke also, yet only Mathew adds the following verse: “I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside…” (Mt 8:11). • So again we see gentiles coming. This time they come not only from the east, but also from the west, not only to worship the king but to feast together with him in his kingdom. Missiology: New Testament

  10. Again a gentile representative, an outsider, in this case centurion, approaches Jesus and demonstrates what is expected from God’s own people, Israelites. Thus Mathew nourishes the theme of kingdom of heaven as being open to all the nations by faith and step by step leads his Missiology: New Testament

  11. The Great commission 28:16-20 • Mt 28:16-20 is crystal clear with regard to God’s intention – all nations have to be exposed to the message of the gospel so that Jesus would have disciples from all nations. • Only this time Mathew puts a clear emphasis on centripetal force of the mission instead of centrifugal. • If in two previous cases Jesus was approached by non-Jewish individuals and he declared that gentiles will come to take their places in the kingdom, this time the disciples are to go out and bring the kingdom, as it were, to the nations. Missiology: New Testament

  12. Mathew begins his gospel by portraying that the birth of Christ was in a sense desired by nations, he develops the notion by showing that God is ready to accept those who have faith in Jesus as Lord, and finally takes the missiological theme to the culmination in which Jesus himself declares to the disciples about his kingly authority not only on earth, as the devil would have him gotten (Mt 4:9), but also in heaven. With this assurance and with Jesus being always present the disciples are ready to go and to discipleship all the nations. Missiology: New Testament

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