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Introduction
-Usually, when we think of missions we think of the Great Commission.
But missions didn’t begin with the Great Commission.
Missions began with God.
The pursuit of a people that would glorify His name has beat in His heart long before it was ever breathed into His church.
Darrell Guder writes, “We have come to see that mission is not merely an activity of the church.
Rather, mission is the result of God’s initiative, rooted in God’s purposes to restore and heal creation.
‘Mission’ means ‘sending,’ and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God’s action in human history....”
-Missio Dei: “the idea of God’s nature and expression extended to and stamped upon the world.
God the Father sends God the Son who sends God the Holy Spirit; all three send the church.”
(Tom Steffen and Lois McKinney Douglas, Encountering Missionary Life and Work).
-Jesus expressed His own mission in when He read from the scroll of Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
-Paul also referenced the mission of Jesus: 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners-- of whom I am the worst.
16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.
-However, it was always God’s plan to pass the mission on to the church.
Not to accomplish on its own, but to commit to it, invest themselves in it, and faithfully carry it out.
"Just as the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you" ().
"Just as You sent Me into the world, even so I sent them into the world ().
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-A “missional church is a community of God’s people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God’s mission to the world.
In other words, the church’s true and authentic organizing principle is mission.
When the church is in mission, it is the true church.
The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
To obstruct this is to block God’s purposes in and through God’s people” (Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways).
The Gospel (Eu=good; Angelion=message) He has given us is a Missions Message.
If it could not save every sinner, there would be no reason to take it to every nation.
And the Great Commission calls and identifies the local church as the center for world evangelism.
Three foundations to help us understand the mission of God:
A Compassionate God
A. The Description of God’s Love –
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It is Extravagant - “God so loved”
[quote it with me]
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It is Extravagant - “God so loved”
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It is a love so infinite that it is everlasting.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
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