INTRO TO MISSIONS

This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the eighth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of exporting national pastors for ministry. How can ministry multiply? When is it time to release the local church to the national pastor? What is too quick and what is too slow? Is there a pattern in Paul and Timothy that we can follow?

INTRO TO MISSIONS

This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the eighth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of training ministers on the foreign field. Aaron talks about the essential step of exercising believers for ministry. The paradigm used is that the missionary is a coach preparing ministers for the work.

INTRO TO MISSIONS

This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the sixth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of establishing believers. Aaron talks about the essential step of exhorting believers to ministry. Jesus modeled this priority and spiritual skill during the years he spent training The Twelve.

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This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the sixth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of establishing believers. Aaron talks about the mission of the church and shows that it really cannot be reduced to anything less than reproducing ourselves in disciples who can disciple others. He then goes on to show how this work of reproducing ourselves is ultimately the most important work that we can involve ourselves in as ministers of the gospel. Finally, Aaron talks about some of the practical ways that we work to see new believers established in their faith. (1 hr. 2 min.)

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This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. Here in the fifth lesson we talk about efforts to evangelize cities. The first part of the talk centers on the advantages and challenges of church-planting in an urban context. The second talks about the Apostle Paul, his apparent preference for urban ministry (though it’s hardly the same as what we think of as urban), and the way he approached evangelism. Last, we ask what kinds of practical ways we can implement Paul’s example in the modern cities of the world.  (1 hr. 6 min.)

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This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. This is the fourth lesson in the course, and it attempts to provide a framework for measuring the need for the gospel around the world. We emphasize in this lesson that our efforts in missions should center on questions of supply, not on questions of demand. We then proceed to discuss which places in the world have high ‘unheard’ factors and what those places are generally like. (1 hr.)

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This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. In the third lesson, we talk about what are the proper motivations for involvement in missions. There are some clearly defective motivations that nevertheless seem to propel some Christians. There are, however, multiple ostensibly good motivations that are commonly proposed for would-be missions goers and senders. Why are motivations so important, and how do we determine the legitimacy of a given motivation?  (50 min.)

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This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. This second lesson talks about what the mission is. It focuses on the OT prophecies of what this NT mission will be. How does Jesus Christ direct us to fulfill this Great Mission given to the church? How can a missionary and a church know what to include and exclude in all that is called missions today?  (58 min.)

Lesson 2 Missiology: What is the Great Mission?

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An Introduction to Missiology

Lesson 2 – What is the mission?

Introduction. The purpose of this session is to:

1. Feel the individual and the corporate nature of Great Commission as given by Jesus Christ.

2. Understand that missions is not peripheral or optional to local church ministry.

3. Fix our eyes on the accomplishment of the mission: Making disciples of Christ everywhere. 

Definitions:

1. Missionary- A sent one.

2. Mission- What the missionary is sent to do.

3. Missions- The central objective of the local church to organize and support the accomplishment of the mission by the recruiting, equipping, sending, and sustaining of missionaries.

1. The OT foresees a decentralization of God’s plan of salvation for the nations: Sending.

*God sent his Word by the Prophets to Israel (Heb. 1:1). The nations could come to the temple in Jerusalem to learn of God. (1 Ki. 8:41-43, 59-60)

*God promised to send His Word made flesh (Heb. 1:2, John 1:14), the Light of the Nations (Is. 42:6, Luke 2:30-32), the perfect Testator (Is. 53) to bring the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-34, Ez. 36:24-32)

What are the details of the New Covenant?

1. God’s Word would be written on our hearts

2. God would be their God and they would be their people

3. An inner knowledge of God

4. Total Forgiveness

5. An indwelling Spirit

*God explains how sending saved Jews will result in recruitment of saved Gentiles for his sending plan (Is. 66:19-21). The period between sending and gathering is where we now live.

2. Jesus Christ inaugurates the mission

*The indwelling of the Spirit and the sending of the witnesses is prophesied again (Acts 1:6-8)

*Jesus explains that as the Father has sent Him, so He sends his disciples (John 20:21-23)

How?

1. He indwells and empowers them (vs 22) The indwelling Spirit not in the temple but in us (John 4:21-24, Eph. 2:19-22, 1 Pet. 2:5). The temple becomes mobile.

2. Their preaching bring forgiveness of sin (vs. 23) (Rom. 10:13-15, Is. 52:7)

3. They must now carry their cross (Matt. 10:38, Mark 8:34-35, Col 1:24)

His suffering was for propitiation, our suffering is for proclamation.

*Jesus Christ was sent as a King, Prophet, and Priest

*We are sent to announce the gospel of the kingdom to all peoples (Matt. 4:17, Matt. 12:28, John 18:36, Matt. 24:14, Acts 1:6-8, Acts 15) making us strangers in the kingdoms of this world

The signs of the kingdom (Matt. 12:28, Luke 10:8-11)

The parables of the kingdom (The Sower, The Wheat and Tares, The Net, The Mustard Seed, The Yeast, The Hidden Treasure, The Pearl of Great Price Matt 13:18-46) show us process of the spread of the Gospel until the day of judgement.

The preaching of the kingdom (Acts 1:6, 14:22, 19:8, 20:25, 28:23, 28:31)

*We are sent as prophets to preach the Word of God that people may believe (Eph. 4:10-13)

*We are sent as priests to offer the faith of the gentiles as a sacrifice to God (Rom. 15:15-18, Phil. 2:17)

*The mission is carried on by gentile local churches (Acts 13-28)

3. Jesus Christ fleshes out the details of the mission

*The life of Christ models how His mission will be accomplished (Mark 3:14)

*The Great Commission gives the details of what we are to do when sent (Matt 28:19-20)

*The Great Commission emphasizes the gravity of the mission (Mark 16:15-16)

This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a missionary friend and I taught at our home church. This first lesson talks about how missions relates to God’s cosmic purposes for mankind. It focuses mainly on a survey of the Old Testament, particularly God’s selection of Abraham and his descendants. How do we reconcile the apparent discrepancy between God’s narrow focus on a single race in the Old Testament with the worldwide proclamation of the Gospel in the New Testament? (1 hr. 6 min.)

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