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The God of Mission and the Mission of God

The God of Mission and the Mission of God. Providing a theological foundation for our mission service. Beyond Duty -- A Passion for Christ, a Heart for the World.

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The God of Mission and the Mission of God

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  1. The God of Mission and the Mission of God Providing a theological foundation for our mission service

  2. Beyond Duty -- A Passion for Christ, a Heart for the World

  3. To engage in the mission of God is to participate in history’s greatest love affair and manifest signs of wholeness in a broken world

  4. Inadequate theology leads to exhausted messengers and an exhausting message There is a very real danger that we are using the rest of the world to make up for deficits in our own lives Is this the 21st century form of Christian Missionary Imperialism Give more…Do more… Love more…Serve more

  5. Most Important Fact of the 21st Century That which is yet to be done… …is far less than that which has already been done!

  6. The world is boundaried by God “All authority in heaven and earth is given to Jesus” “All things have been created by and for Jesus”

  7. Mission is not an exhausting human enterprise It is our privileged participation in the life-giving action of the Triune God

  8. Shifting the Center FROM: What a few people do In a few places TO: Participating with the Global Church in the Mighty Acts of God In response to infinite needs With uncertain impact

  9. Not…the Church of God has a mission in the world But… the God of Mission has a Church in the World

  10. The Integrating Theme for Mission “We have received a Kingdom which cannot be shaken.” (Heb. 12.28) We have received “a hope which is an utterly reliable anchor for our lives, fixed behind the innermost veil of heaven, where Jesus has already entered on our behalf.” (Heb. 6.19-20)

  11. “In Jesus, the one thing that needed to happen has happened in such a way that it need never happen again in the same way. The universe has been reconciled to its God....For the human sickness there is one specific remedy, and this is it. There is no other.” (Bishop Stephen Neill)

  12. What does it mean to seek 1st the Kingdom of God?

  13. Seeking first the Kingdom • Subject of Jesus’ first sermon (Mk. 1.14, Lk 4.18) • Subject of Jesus’ last sermon (Acts 1.1-8) • Point of all Jesus’ teaching (Lk. 8.10) • That which we seek first (Mt. 6.33) • We hunger for its justice (Mt. 5.6) • First among our prayerful petitions (Mt. 6.10) • End not arrive until it’s proclaimed to all nations (Mt 24.14)

  14. What is our role? • Guilt • Activism • Adventurism • Charity Participate by the Spirit in the Mighty Acts of God

  15. Providing Signs of the Kingdom Provide the world with hors d’oeuvres of the future--signs of the Gospel of hope • in lives of grace and joy • in deeds of mercy and justice • in words of prayer and proclamation

  16. Manifest signs of the future in the present ? Past Present Future

  17. ? Raising the questions to which only Christ and the Kingdom are the answer Deed Word Signs of the Kingdom Life

  18. God’s Kingdom Not Souls or Bodies, but Persons in Communities Love the Lord with all our heart, soul, strength and mind--and love our neighbors as ourselves • evangelism alone is ministry to ghosts • development alone is ministry to corpses

  19. two sides of a coin two wings of a plane

  20. God’s Redemptive Totalitarianism Without the whole Kingdompeople remain only partially converted Our daily life is dominated by‘earthborn’ totalitarianisms and by twin dualisms: physical spiritual secular sacred

  21. Subjective Private Personal Sacred(religion, worship, prayer, morality) Opinions and beliefs Behavior formed by image & marketing No theology for everyday life: business, money, science, society, politics Truths and facts Experience as authority Secular(science, politics, business) Objective Public Corporate

  22. Sacred Spiritual Religion, values God’s Redemption of all Creation Earthborn Totalitarianisms Secular Physical Science, gov’t, ‘truth’, money

  23. Signs of the Kingdom Throughout Society Church Business & Science Education Family & Health Care Government & Society

  24. Radical Rebellion Against the Status Quo Led by future inevitabilities Not by present actualities

  25. Where are we witnesses? Not sequentially—but simultaneously: • In theUnavoidableWorld • Jerusalem • Judea • In the AvoidableWorld • Samaria • The rest of the world Pointing towards a Redeemed Creation

  26. Show the world TODAY what tomorrow will look like!

  27. First Fruit of the Coming Kingdom

  28. Mission is not the task of a few fanatics But the passion of all God’s people Because it’s the passion of the Living God

  29. Hope “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” Romans 15.12-13

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