redeveloping a missional mindset for north america

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redeveloping a missional mindset for north
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an emerging movement
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meanings of missional

• rorschach test
• ecclesiological junk drawer

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• live sent
• sent church
• sent christian

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the sending God

• apostolos is a Greek word that means sent.
• missio is a Latin word. It, too, means sent.

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God is a Sender by Nature.

• Genesis 121-4 Abraham was sent by God, both to
  be blessed and to be a blessing.
• Isaiah 68 Isaiah was sent by God and for God.
• John 16 There was a man sent from God whose
  name was John. He came (was sent) for a witness
  that he might bear witness of the light John was
  sent by God not to be the light, but to bear
  witness to the light.

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The sending God sent His Son into the world to
reconcile the world to Himself

• John 11 Christ through whom He made the
  world was sent into the world as the Logos, the
  Word.
• John 316 God so loved the world that he sent
  His only begotten Son that those who believe in
  Him would no longer be condemned, but might be
  saved.

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The sending God sends the Spirit the third
person of the Trinity

• But the Counselor, the Holy Spiritthe Father
  will send Him in My namewill teach you all
  things and remind you of everything I have told
  you (John 1426, HCSB)

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The sending God sends the church both the
corporate church and we the individual members of
the body.

• The church is sent to be God's missionary in the
  world.
• John 2021 As the Father had sent Him, so
  Christ Jesus sent His disciples now, His
  apostles.
• Acts 18 -- The Apostles were empowered for
  witness by the Holy Spirit to which they were
  sent.

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God is sending us for his kingdom purpose.

• We, the church, are His sign in the world to the
  world.
• Acts 112 The Holy Spirit said to the Church
  that was at Antioch Set apart for me Barnabas
  and Saul for the work to which I have called
  them which the Church did and So, being sent
  out by the Holy Spirit they went.
• Eph. 36 -11 Paul wrote with excitement about
  the gift he had been given the sending to share
  the mystery of Gods eternal purpose the
  mystery of the plan of the ages hidden in God.

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missional

• missionary
• mission
• missio dei

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Early Books

• Francis Dubose, God Who Sends (1983)
• Charles Van Engen, God's Missionary People
  (1991), and
• Darrell Guder, ed. The Missional Church (1998)

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the church

• Gods missionary instrument
• sign and instrument of the Kingdom
• relating to contemporary culture
• contextualizing the communication

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• just as God is a missionary God, so the church
  is to be a missionary church
• Craig Van Gelder, The Essence of the Church
  (Grand Rapids Baker Books, 2000), 98.

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the church

• missiological challenge
• missiological opportunity

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missionary church

• the nature of the gospel
• the purpose of the church
• the nature of the Kingdom
• the communication of the message and
  contextualization of the church

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• it is easy to be missionminded but not
  missional

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• a missional church is a church that is on
  mission in its setting

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salt
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yeast
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light
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Jesus mission is our mission.
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Jesus mission is our mission.

• John 2021
• Matthew 2818-20
• Luke 2446-48
• Acts 18

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To serve

• Luke 418-19 (HCSB) 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 to the captives and recovery of sight to
  the blind, to set free the oppressed, to proclaim
  the year of the Lords favor.

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Great Commandment

• Mark 1230-31 (HCSB) Love the Lord your God with
  all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
  mind, and with all your strength. The second is
  Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other
  commandment greater than these.

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To save Luke 1910

• Luke 1910 (HCSB) For the Son of Man has come to
  seek and to save the lost.

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Great Commission

• Matthew 2818-20 (HCSB) Then Jesus came near and
  said to them, All authority has been given to Me
  in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make
  disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
  name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
  Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I
  have commanded you. And remember, I am with you
  always, to the end of the age.

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obstacles
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tradition
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technique
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• reality
• interest
• positive
• Christ

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indigenous
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• contextualization is a delicate enterprise if
  ever there was one . . . the evangelist and
  mission strategist stand on a razors edge, aware
  that to fall off on either side has terrible
  consequences . . .

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• fall to the right and you end in obscurantism, so
  attached to your conventional ways of practicing
  and teaching the faith that you veil its truth
  and power from those who are trying to see it
  through very different eyes.

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• slip to the left and you tumble into syncretism,
  so vulnerable to the impact of paganism in its
  multiplicity of forms that you compromise the
  uniqueness of Christ and concoct another gospel
  which is not a gospel.
• Dean S. Gilliland, ed., The Word Among Us
  (Dallas Word Publishing, 1989), vii.

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• biblically faithful
• culturally relevant
• counterculture community for the Kingdom of God

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balance
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missio Dei

• Jesus Christ is the embodiment of that mission
• the Holy Spirit is the power of that mission
• the church is the instrument of that mission
• and the culture is the context in which that
  mission occurs.
• Wilbert R. Shenk, Mission Strategies, in Toward
  the 21st Century in Christian Mission, ed. James
  M. Phillips and Robert T. Coote (Grand Rapids
  Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993), 22123.

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• the Word became flesh