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

I. The Apostolic Heart Is Hopeful: The Harvest of God Is Profoundly Full and Ripe.

A. The lost souls of the earth represent the harvest of the Lord , Matt. 9.

1. It is the Lord’s harvest (not ours, not a missionary’s, not a human being’s, and not the enemy’s!).

2. They are the “ multitudes ,” v. 36.

3. Those who are “ distressed ,” v. 36

4. Those who are “ distracted ”

5. Those whose life is like “ a sheep without a shepherd ”

B. The harvest (i.e., the fields) is plentiful .

1. Universally : It includes the “entire creation,” Mark 16.15-16

2. Personally : It includes every man, woman, boy, and girl who do not know the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, Col. 1.27-29.

3. Ethnically : The Gospel itself is dynamic power to every person who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, Rom. 1.16-17.

4. Geographically : It covers every single person beginning from Jerusalem, to Judea, in Samaria, and to the very