Foundations for Christian Mission, Student Workbook, SW04

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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

2. Jesus is the Cosmic Contractor, who by his own design and power is designing a city for us to live in. Human life began in a garden, but it will end, ultimately, in the city of God built by our Lord, John 14.1-4.

3. Our true identity and citizenship is associated with this city of God, Phil. 3.20-21.

C. The explicit goal of mission (evangelizing, discipling, and church planting) is to rob the cities of the lost in order to fill up the rolls of and populate the New Jerusalem, which is the true mother of all believers.

1. Jerusalem above is our true mother, Gal. 4.26.

2. The roll call above is the most significant one we can belong to, Ps. 87.3-6.

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3. The word of the Lord will go from Jerusalem.

a. Isa. 2.2-3

b. Mic. 4.1-2

4. Gladness and joy will never leave its precincts, Isa. 65.18.

5. God himself will dwell with his people in the final urban renewal project , Joel 3.17.