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PROPER PERSPECTIVES

SECTION I: BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE

PART 1: The Missionary Mandate: Mission, Missions, Missionary

I. God and Mission

I. God and Mission

1. God is a missionary God

I. God and Mission

1. God is a missionary God

The living God desires to be known.

I. God and Mission

1. God is a missionary God

God both chooses and sends.

I. God and Mission

2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God

I. God and Mission

2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God

3. God’s mission reveals God’s plan

I. God and Mission

2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God

3. God’s mission reveals God’s plan

4. The mission of the church is based in God

II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose  

II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose   A. God’s Mission is rooted in the design

for his kingdom 

II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose   A. God’s Mission is rooted in the design

for his kingdom 

1. This is the theme of history and the Bible.

2. The Bible communicates eternal

truths about God’s eternal intentions or plans.

 

2. The Bible communicates eternal truths about God’s eternal intentions or

plans.  3. The throne of God

4. Defining a kingdom - Three parameters for a kingdom

4. Defining a kingdom - Three parameters for a kingdom

Any kingdom will have received authority to rule, or the right to rule as given to or invested in a person.

Any kingdom will have subjects under that authority.

Any kingdom will have subjects under that authority.

Any kingdom will also have the exercise of that rule – there is a reality of activity, command, and consequences

5. The issue: who rightfully possesses the kingdom.

5. The issue: who rightfully possesses the kingdom.

God set up Lucifer as the king of God’s creation.

5. The issue: who rightfully possesses the kingdom.

God set up Lucifer as the king of God’s creation. Lucifer wanted to exalt himself in taking the throne from God.

God replaced Lucifer with Adam as king till he sinned.

God replaced Lucifer with Adam as king till he sinned.

Now God is working out his plan to rule over physical and spiritual realms of his creation and his creatures.

God replaced Lucifer with Adam as king till he sinned.

Now God is working out his plan to rule over physical and spiritual realms of his creation and his creatures.

This is the context in which salvation to man must be seen

B. Mission is rooted in the reality of man’s lostness

B. Mission is rooted in the reality of man’s lostness

1. Many pastors/missionaries have never really understood that man is lost.

2. Logical questions

2. Logical questions

3. Logical conclusions

2. Logical questions

3. Logical conclusions

4. Man without the Bible is lost.

2. Logical questions

3. Logical conclusions

4. Man without the Bible is lost.

5. What is the basis for mankind's guilt?

6. The basis for God's condemnation

6. The basis for God's condemnation

7. The witness of creation

6. The basis for God's condemnation

7. The witness of creation

8. The witness of conscience

6. The basis for God's condemnation

7. The witness of creation

8. The witness of conscience

9. The rejection of God's revelation

6. The basis for God's condemnation

7. The witness of creation

8. The witness of conscience

9. The rejection of God's revelation

All men are without excuse.

God put a conscience inside of man and creation outside of man yet man has held these truths in unrighteousness.

God put a conscience inside of man and creation outside of man yet man has held these truths in unrighteousness.

6. The limits of God’s mercy

God put a conscience inside of man and creation outside of man yet man has held these truths in unrighteousness.

6. The limits of God’s mercy

Is God just to condemn man?

Can man judge God?

Can man judge God?

Does God owe man something?

Can man judge God?

Does God owe man something?

God’s mercy endures forever but his mercy has limits defined by his righteousness

7. The issue is man’s lostness.

7. The issue is man’s lostness.

8. The basis of God’s judgment

7. The issue is man’s lostness.

8. The basis of God’s judgment

9. The certainty of God’s judgment

7. The issue is man’s lostness.

8. The basis of God’s judgment

9. The certainty of God’s judgment

10. Our mission is found here within the context of God’s mission

C. Mission is rooted in God’s very nature

C. Mission is rooted in God’s very nature

1. God's nature as Love and Light give the basis for His mission in the world.

C. Mission is rooted in God’s very nature

1. God's nature as Love and Light give the basis for His mission in the world.

a. Love

b. Love and God’s mission

b. Love and God’s missionc. Light

b. Love and God’s missionc. Lightd. Both love and light are necessary.

b. Love and God’s missionc. Lightd. Both love and light are necessary.

e. God's nature gives both the definition of mission and the motivation in this mission.

Definition of mission:  

Definition of mission:  God's desire to restore His own image in lost man by means of salvation.

Motivation in mission:

Motivation in mission:

God is motivated by His nature, His love for man and His holiness. God is love and God is light. Specifically, these are the two aspects of His nature that motivate him in His mission.