Here is the outline for week 1 of my talk. Hopefully the podcast will be loaded later today. www.lifepointchurch.org

Go…ology (Outline#1)

Emil Brunner (Theologian) –“The church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission, there is no church; and where there is no church nor mission, there is no faith.”

Any study of missions must start with a study of mission theology.

Missiology = the study of missions.

Every great missionary movement was preceded by a movement of spiritual awakening.

John Piper – 3 types of people 1. Those who go 2. Those who send 3. Those who are disobedient

Not all can go, but all can send

Define Missio Dei–Mission of God

Mission = God’s activity

Missions = Man’s activity to

Mission always precedes missions

God was the founder of mission. Jesus was the model of mission. God sent His son, Jesus, on mission to the earth to seek out and to save a people for God. Luke 19:10

Jesus taught the disciples they were to take on the mission of God in the commissions of the N.T. (Matt 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:47-48; John 20:21-23; and Acts 1:8).

Commission #1 Matthew 28:18-20

Primary verb is “make disciples”

Participles are going, baptizing, and teaching as you are making disciples

We are to develop followers, not learners.

Connection between authority and going–“therefore”

Commission #2 Mark 16:15-16

Main verb in the passage is proclaim/preach

“Go” is part of both verses, not central

This reiterated what the biblical message has stated from the very beginning. God’s redemptive mission is for everyone, not just one group of people.

Commission #3 Luke 24:46-48

Central theme of verses is message of repentance and forgiveness of sins

Commission #4 John 20:21-23

Culmination of the Book of John

The one who has been Sent, now becomes the Sender

Jesus tells His followers that as He has been sent, so He is now sending them (John 20:21).

Commission #5 Acts 1:8

The Book of Acts follows the outline of verse 8. Chapters 1-6–Start of the church in Jerusalem Chapters 7-12–Scattering of the church into Judea and Samaria Chapters 13-28–Sent out to uttermost

In Acts, Jesus tells the disciples they will be witnesses to the things they have seen.

The Holy Spirit directed and empowered the disciples to accomplish the task of reaching people, which is still the mandate of the church.

He came…He sought…He sent,

We go… We seek… We send…