Vision for Mission: Nurturing an Apostolic Heart

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Vi s i on for Mi s s i on: Nur tur i ng an Apos to l i c Hear t

“You can only do the work of an apostle when you come to share the vision of an apostle, feel the same joy of an apostle, and finally be overwhelmed with the same dread and burden of an apostle. No vision, no joy, and no dread will inevitably lead to no commitment, no sacrifice, and no work of an apostle.” True or False?

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I. An Apostolic Heart Is Fully Aware of Satan as the Chief Enemy of the Plan and Purposes of God.

1 John 3.8 – Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

A. The Cosmic Battle of spiritual beings upon and around the earth

1. We do not war against human beings (“flesh and blood”).

2. We do battle against spiritual forces in the heavenlies.

3. Only the weaponry of God is effective against such foes.

B. The entire world is under the control of the devil and his minions.

Eph. 2.1-3 – And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

1 John 4.4-5 – Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who