Foundations for Christian Mission, Mentor's Guide, MG04

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F O U N D A T I O N S F O R C H R I S T I A N M I S S I O N

3. The Church of Messiah Jesus: sojourners in the Already and the Not Yet

a. The Great Confession: Jesus is Lord, Phil. 2.9-11.

b. The Great Commission: go and make disciples among all nations, Matt. 28.18-20; Acts 1.8.

c. The Great Commandment: love God and love people, Matt. 22.37-39.

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4. The announcement of the mystery: Gentiles as fellow-heirs of the promise, Rom. 16.25-27; Col. 1.26-28; Eph. 3.3-11

a. Jesus as the Last Adam, 1 Cor. 15.45-49

b. God drawing out of the world a New Humanity, Eph. 2.12-22

5. In-between the times: tokens of the Age of Sabbath and of Jubilee, Acts 2.17ff. Cf. Joel 2; Amos 9; Ezek. 36.25-27; Ps. 110.1ff.

G. The Fulfillment of Time (the Parousia of Christ), 1 Thess. 4.13-17

1. Completion of world mission: the evangelization of the world’s ethnoi , Matt. 24.14; Mark 16.15-16; Rom. 10.18; 15.18-21; Col. 1.23

2. The apostasy of the Church, 1 Tim. 4.1-3; 2 Tim. 4.3; 2 Thess. 2.3-12