Mission in a Globalised World

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Mission in a Globalised World
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Mission in a Globalised World

• Jesus the first globaliser?
• Go and make disciples of all nations
• (Matt 2819)

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What is globalisation?

• Globalisation
• Changes that are
• economic
• social
• technological
• cultural
• political

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What is globalisation?

• Globalisation
• Increasing
• interdependence
• integration
• interaction
• between people and companies

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What globalisation means

• 1 Global spread of big brand names
• 30,000 McDonalds in the world
• Over 400 Coca-Cola brands
• 1,200 new Starbucks every year

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What globalisation means

• 2 Global control of industries
• Global power in the hands of a few

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What globalisation means

• 3 Global control of media
• Never before has the hard-working, care-worn
  peasant woman in an Indian village in her sari
  had to fear that her husband was comparing her
  looks with those of scantily clad Hollywood
  glamour girls.

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What globalisation means

• 4 Global control of trade
• Movement of goods

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What globalisation means

• 4 Global control of trade
• Fixing of prices

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What globalisation means

• 4 Global control of trade
• Manipulation of conditions of employment

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What globalisation means

• 5 Global issues of security and safety
• Security with technology
• Safety with personnel

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What globalisation means

• 6 Global issues of pollution and over-consumption
• Poor nations suffer first and the most

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What globalisation means
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Challenges to Mission

• 1 We have to be part of big picture issues like
  climate change
• We join coalitions with others
• To cancel unpayable debts
• To stop climate change
• To value Gods creation

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Challenges to Mission

• 2 We have to challenge cultural homogenisation

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Challenges to Mission

• 3 We must bring justice to our mission agenda
  like never before
• The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
  because the LORD has anointed me to preach good
  news to the poor.
• He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
  proclaim freedom for the captives and release
  from darkness for the prisoners. (Isaiah 61)

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Challenges to Mission

• A new mandate
• To change mindsets of the rich and the powerful
• Telling them about Jesus
• Mobilising people to say we care and you cant
  do this to our world

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