Foundations for Christian Mission, Mentor's Guide, MG04

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In order to ensure that your module study is successful, you will need to set aside time to spend on your upcoming assignments, including your review of this week’s material in preparation for your reading assignment. In the next class session, you will be quizzed on the content (the video teaching content and outline) of this week’s material. Make sure that you spend time covering your notes, especially focusing on the main ideas of the lesson. Also, please complete your assigned reading, and summarize your reading with no more than a paragraph or two for each assignment. Your summary should be your reaction and best response to what you saw to be the main point in each of the readings. Do not be overly concerned about giving detail; simply write out what you consider to be the main point discussed in that section of the book. Please bring these summaries to class next week. (Please see the “Reading Completion Sheet” at the end of this lesson.) In this lesson we discovered a “prolegomena” for mission: a concise definition of mission is the proclamation of God’s offer of salvation and redemption in the person and work of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to all people groups. We saw how two motifs, Mission as the Drama of All Time and Mission as the Fulfillment of the Divine Promise can enable us to see God’s working in the world as a single unfolding story. God Almighty, the God of covenant faithfulness, has fulfilled his promise in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, who represents the fulfillment of God’s plan and purpose to redeem his creation. Mission is the outworking of that sovereign purpose for his own glory and the salvation of the nations. In our next lesson, we will continue to explore images of mission in Scripture, viewing God’s work of rescue as both The Romance of God and War of the Spheres. In regard to the romance of God , the Lord has determined to draw out of the world a people for his own possession, and now through Jesus Christ and his Church, the romance motif finds its richest fulfillment. In regard to the warfare motif, God has determined to reestablish his kingdom rule in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Since the Fall, God has taken the position of warrior to bring the universe back under his rulership. In the person of Jesus of Nazareth, God is reasserting his right to rule over his universe, and mission is the demonstration and proclamation of that kingdom authority, which has now come in Christ.

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