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Matthew 28:18 -20

18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 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, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

How many nations exist?

100 200 300 400 2000

How many nations exist?

Jesus did not merely send us out to reach all of the countries of the world - but all of the geoethnic groups ( people groups) of the world.

List the nations that are “reached”

With this understanding can any country or region be considered reached? Is there any place where all are adherents?

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Taxonomy

Taxonomy - Classification system or means of ordering data that includes a vocabulary specific to that discipline.

Every field of study has a taxonomy.

This session covers three key aspects in the mission:

Strategy

Culture Linguistics

CULTURE

The total way of life of a people, composed of their learned and shared behavior patterns, values, norms and material objects.

The partially integrated system of ideas, feelings, and values encoded in learned patterns of behavior, signs, products, rituals, beliefs and worldviews shared by a community of people.

The anthropologist's label for the sum of the distinctive characteristics of a peoples way of life.

The conceptual designs, the definitions by which people order their live, interpret their experiences and evaluate the behavior of others.

Interaction between cultures is referred to cross-cultural, intercultural or multicultural.

Evaluating cultures - Cultural Relativism - 1. Evaluating a culture based on the context of said culture ( as opposed to evaluating based upon one's own culture {ethnocentrism) 2. The belief that no culture should be able to judge another by imposing its own standards on the culture.

A third understanding of Cultural Relativism is that unless the Bible speaks about a particular cultural expression it may not be wrong, it may simply be different.

Ethno - ethen (Greek) - nations Ethnography - is the science of studying

other cultures, every culture or group holds an unique Worldview.

 

Evaluating cultures - Cultural Relativism

1. Evaluating a culture based on the context of said culture ( as opposed to evaluating based upon one's own culture (ethnocentrism).

2. The belief that no culture should be able to judge another by imposing its own standards on the culture.

3. Cultural Relativism is that unless the Bible speaks about a particular cultural expression it may not be wrong, it may simply be different.

Ethno

Ethno - ethen (Greek) - nations

Ethnography - is the science of studying other cultures, every culture or group holds an unique Worldview

Strategy

The point of Missionaries work is to reach.

What is/are the unreached :

URP - Unreached people group - less than 2% of evangelicals

UEPG - Unengaged people group - less than 2% evangelical and no church planting in place

UCPG - unconnected people group - - less than 2% evangelical and no church planting in place and no methodology in place.

Strategy

Last Frontier – 1.65 billion people that have not heard the gospel

10/40 Window -

10/40 Nations

The Spoken Word - Non Readers

Did you know:

70 % of the world’s population does not read.

Thousands of languages have not been reduced to writing yet.

The Spoken Word - Non Readers

Literate

Preliterate

Non- literate

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Primary Auditory Learners

Secondary Auditory Learners

The Spoken Word - Non Readers

Strategies for communicating God’s story to no readers:

• Creation – Fall – Redemption• Chronological Bible Storying• Watch and Do, Catch and Do• Repetition