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

2. The world as resistor of God’s agents of grace

a. John 15.18-19

b. John 16.33

c. John 18.36-37

d. James 1.27

e. 2 Peter 1.3-4

3. The world as enemy of God ( echthros ), cf. Matt. 5.43-44; Mark 12.36; Acts 13.10; Matt. 13.39

a. James 4.3-4

b. The devil is the “prince of this world,” John 14.30

c. Mutually exclusive to one another

d. 1 John 5.4-5

B. The world as object of God’s love

1. God so loved the world, John 3.16

2. The world as the future domain of God, Rev. 11.15