The following students will be in the discipleship group I shall run each Wednesday instead of cottage prayer - the

group will meet at my home, will last for about 2 hours and will usually have a meal together, students will be back for that start of library time at 8pm. Bring your Bible.

The following students will be in the discipleship group I shall run each Wednesday instead of cottage prayer - the group will meet at my home, will last for about 2 hours and will usually have a meal together, students will be back for that start of library time at 8pm. Bring your Bible.

Horeising Joyson Ngayairing Phungshar Rahul Shokami Tensumenla

Mission and Evangelism!

LTCi course 801
Introductory session:

Time to start thinking

John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP)! Christopher Wright, The Mission of Gods People (Zondervan)! David Horton (Ed), The Portable Seminary (Bethany House)! Missions, Evangelism, Discipleship, BTCP ! Schnabel, Paul the Missionary, (Apollos)! Peel, Lardimore, Going Public with your Faith, (Zondervan)! M. David Sills, Reaching and Teaching, (Moody)

John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP)! Christopher Wright, The Mission of Gods People (Zondervan)! David Horton (Ed), The Portable Seminary (Bethany House)! Missions, Evangelism, Discipleship, BTCP ! Schnabel, Paul the Missionary, (Apollos)! Peel, Lardimore, Going Public with your Faith, (Zondervan)! M. David Sills, Reaching and Teaching, (Moody)

John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP)! Christopher Wright, The Mission of Gods People (Zondervan)! David Horton (Ed), The Portable Seminary (Bethany House)! Missions, Evangelism, Discipleship, BTCP ! Schnabel, Paul the Missionary, (Apollos)! Peel, Lardimore, Going Public with your Faith, (Zondervan)! M. David Sills, Reaching and Teaching, (Moody)

John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP)! Christopher Wright, The Mission of Gods People (Zondervan)! David Horton (Ed), The Portable Seminary (Bethany House)! Missions, Evangelism, Discipleship, BTCP ! Schnabel, Paul the Missionary, (Apollos)! Peel, Lardimore, Going Public with your Faith, (Zondervan)! M. David Sills, Reaching and Teaching, (Moody)

How would you dene mission? What are the important biblical texts in instructing us about mission? Who are the prominent missionaries in the Bible what can we learn from them?

Is the incarnation the greatest evidence in the Bible of Gods commitment to mission - can we use it as an example to follow?! If we are to follow the example how do we do it, what is the pattern - in words, social justice, signs and wonders?

Is the incarnation the greatest evidence in the Bible of Gods commitment to mission - can we use it as an example to follow?! If we are to follow the example how do we do it, what is the pattern - in words, social justice, signs and wonders?

Is the incarnation the greatest evidence in the Bible of Gods commitment to mission - can we use it as an example to follow?! If we are to follow the example how do we do it, what is the pattern - in words, social justice, signs and wonders?

Matthew 28:18-20! Mark 16:15, 19-22! Luke 24:46-49! Jn 17:13-20, 20:21-23! Acts 1:8! John 3:16! 2 Peter 3:9

Rom 10:13-18! Acts 13:47! John 12:32! 1 Peter 3:15! Matt 5:16! Luke 4:13ff! Acts 11:19ff! What Old Testament ideas?

The Great Commission is the focus for much modern mission work. Why are there Five versions of it in the New Testament?

Command

Mission Emphasis

Focus purpose - go, baptise, teach, obey

Matt 28:18-20

make disciples

of all nations

Mk 16:15, 19-22

Lk 24:46-49 John 17:13-20, 20:21-23 Acts 1:8

Command

Mission Emphasis

Focus purpose - go, baptise, teach, obey preach to all people, signs conrming personal witness to the message

Matt 28:18-20

make disciples preach good news

as a witness, proclaim repentance and forgiveness

of all nations go into all the world to all nations

Mk 16:15, 19-22

Lk 24:46-49 John 17:13-20, 20:21-23 Acts 1:8

personal into but not of the I am sending you representative of world Christ Jerusalem, Holy Spirit power be my witnesses Judea, Samaria to enable

Mission arises primarily out of the nature not of the church but of God himself. The living God of the Bible is a sending God.! John Stott

Mission arises primarily out of the nature not of the church but of God himself. The living God of the Bible is a sending God.! John Stott
God sent Jonah to Nineveh

What is mission?
Encyclopedia Britannica: Christian mission is "an organized effort for the propagation of the Christian faith."! Gotquestions.org: Christian missions is following Christs call: sharing the Gospel with the lost world through Gods wisdom and strength.

Baker Bible Dictionary: Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether Encyclopedia Britannica: supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that his Christian mission is "an purposes for judgment or organized effort for the redemption are furthered ! propagation of the Christian

faith." ! The biblical concept of "mission"

comprehends the authority of the one Gotquestions.org: Christian who sends; the obedience of the one missions is following Christs sent; a task to be accomplished; the call: sharing the Gospel with power to accomplish the task; and a the lost world through Gods purpose within the moral framework wisdom and strength. of God's covenantal working of judgment or redemption.

Baker Bible Dictionary: Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether Encyclopedia Britannica: supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that his Christian mission is "an purposes for judgment or organized effort for the redemption are furthered ! propagation of the Christian

faith." ! The biblical concept of "mission"

comprehends the authority of the one Gotquestions.org: Christian who sends; the obedience of the one missions is following Christs sent; a task to be accomplished; the call: sharing the Gospel with power to accomplish the task; and a the lost world through Gods purpose within the moral framework wisdom and strength. of God's covenantal working of judgment or redemption.

Mission in Acts
Acts is the follow up to, all that Jesus began to do and teach - so from it we should get some understanding of what the rst believers thought mission should look like.! From your knowledge of Acts what features characterised mission in the early years of Christianity? Lets look at the church at Antioch rst then more generally.

Mission in Acts
Acts is the follow up to, all that Jesus began to do and teach - so from it we should get some understanding of what the rst believers thought mission should look like.! From your knowledge of Acts what features characterised mission in the early years of Christianity? Lets look at the church at Antioch rst then more generally.

Acts 11 - the church is established at Antioch! Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephens death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They preached the word of God, but only to Jews. 20 However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles[f] about the Lord Jesus. 21 The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord.

22 When the church at Jerusalem heard what had happened, they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 23 When he arrived and saw this evidence of Gods blessing, he was lled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord. 24 Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in faith. And many people were brought to the Lord.

25 Then Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul. 26 When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers[g] were rst called Christians.)

27 During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fullled during the reign of Claudius.) 29 So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters[h] in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. 30 This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

27 During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fullled during the reign of Claudius.) 29 So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters[h] in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. 30 This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

27 During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fullled during the reign of Claudius.) 29 So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters[h] in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. 30 This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

27 During this time some prophets traveled from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fullled during the reign of Claudius.) 29 So the believers in Antioch decided to send relief to the brothers and sisters[h] in Judea, everyone giving as much as they could. 30 This they did, entrusting their gifts to Barnabas and Saul to take to the elders of the church in Jerusalem.

Prayerful - 1, 4! Unity of believers, support of one another - 1, 4, ! Bold proclamation of the in the power and conviction of the Holy Spirit - 2! Personal and corporate purity - 1, 5! Persecution (which did not stop their proclamation) 4, 5, 7, 8, 11

Started at home with the Prayerful 1, 4 ! people around them - 2! Unity of believers, support of Dynamic, living activity of the one another 1, 4, ! Holy Spirit - 2, 3, 5,! Bold proclamation of the in Directed / led by Holy Spirit the power and conviction of 11, 13, 16,! the Holy Spirit - 2! Supportive of other churches Personal and corporate purity 11, ! - 1, 5! Strong in teaching / training Persecution (which did not 2, 4, 8, 13! stop their proclamation) 4, 5, Open to outside groups 7, 8, 11 (Gentiles) - 10, 11

Outward looking - 13! Openly discussed and dealt with problems - 15! Made disciples - ! Planted new churches! Established elders! Practised team ministry with people of differing gifts! Developed and encouraged leaders - 20

Frank Viola (Finding Organic Church) suggests that Acts gives a number of different patterns of church development:! Jerusalem model - based around a group of apostles raising up one large church - after some years this is then transplanted into other cities - the workers visit these churches and help in foundation laying

Antioch model - workers are Frank Viola (Finding sent fromChurch a mother Organic ) church to plant newthat churches - they suggests Acts gives a leave quickly but give regular help and number of different encouragement ! patterns of church development: ! Ephesian model - an older worker stays in a city developing Jerusalem model - based and helping young workers - he around a group of apostles then send them out to local raising up one large church places to start newthis works after some years is ! then transplanted into Roman model - Christians from other cities the workers a variety of cultures come visit these and together inchurches a city to establish a help in foundation laying new church

Antioch model - workers are Frank Viola (Finding sent fromChurch a mother Organic ) church to plant newthat churches - they suggests Acts gives a leave quickly but give regular help and number of different encouragement ! patterns of church development: ! Ephesian model - an older worker stays in a city developing Jerusalem model - based and helping young workers - he around a group of apostles then send them out to local raising up one large church places to start newthis works after some years is ! then transplanted into Roman model - Christians from other cities the workers a variety of cultures come visit these and together inchurches a city to establish a help in foundation laying new church