https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent daily 0.75 2024-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1703370705716-8OQSODL2470QG0H4RPC5/image-asset.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/eb220cd6-a68e-464e-8bde-9af00f69119b/47AE4BDC-12F0-4470-AB8A-33C712F18575.png https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689792845675-IWSEYME7PRFP91O8Z7VT/image-asset.jpeg SENT - Introduction - #1 What comes to mind? What do you know about missions? What comes to your mind when you hear that word? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689867692017-JSMXYN0UQ58K1940CE1C/image-asset.jpeg SENT - Introduction - The definition above and verse below answers the what, where, and how questions of missions. How would you answer: What is the purpose of missions? Where is missions going? How will missions be completed? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689866433284-3YDJ8V55SC1UFOQGPOQ5/image-asset.jpeg SENT - Introduction - #2 What countries have you traveled to? Where did you go and why did you go? What were some experiences you had. Missions is about traveling too. God desires his people to travel all over the earth with the the good news. Because missions is not just local, but global. It has a vision that extends to the ends of the earth and encompasses all people, all nations, and languages. God, in Jesus Christ has traveled to earth to make world travelers. “For God so loved the world that He sent His one and only Son…” (John 3:16) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/5bfb7b05-2d83-4d76-9064-2d3459985aca/pool.jpg SENT - Introduction - Who would you be? If the pool is world missions, who do you think represents you best? Why? https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction-a9dbf monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/4ae336d7-2c07-40ee-a88b-0a2a7d26fee0/ends+of+the+earth+%2812+%C3%97+18+in%29+%2818+%C3%97+12+in%29+%282%29.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/7866cb7a-5899-4eef-b1b7-871fb61fff64/BU-Chart_Great-Commission-1.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - Do you know? Matthew 28:18-20 is the most well-known biblical record of what is commonly referred to extra-biblically as “the Great Commission.” But despite the significance of these and other verses that call Christians to “go and make disciples of all nations,” a surprising proportion of churchgoing Christians in the U.S. are generally unaware of these famous words from Jesus. When asked if they had previously “heard of the Great Commission,” half of U.S. churchgoers (51%) say they do not know this term. It would be reassuring to assume that the other half who know the term are also actually familiar with the passage known by this name, but that proportion is low (17%). Meanwhile, “the Great Commission” does ring a bell for one in four (25%), though they can’t remember what it is. Six percent of churchgoers are simply not sure whether they have heard this term “the Great Commission” before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/4fd8fbb7-d182-4f36-9ac4-ae763442f186/image-asset.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - #1 What will it take? What will it take to reach the whole earth with the gospel? When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages.” To that, Calvert replied, “We died before we came here.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690230198516-04ZGC38Y97EFU60YJYOD/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - Where do you see the components of the definition above stated in the verse below? What is the scope of missions according to the verse below? Who is the strength behind getting the whole gospel to the whole world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/ab0fb4b2-dde5-4ced-a51a-b2ee0f42a55c/BU-Chart_Great-Commission-3.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - The Great Commission by generation Age also makes a significant difference in whether churchgoers recognize the Great Commission. More than one-quarter of Elders (29%) and Boomers (26%) says they know the text, compared to 17 percent of Gen X and one in 10 Millennials (10%). As with other churchgoing groups, people in all generations are more likely to choose the right passage from a set of options than to remember it unprompted. Roughly two in five people among the three oldest generations correctly identify the Great Commission (43% of Elders, 42% of Boomers, 41% of Gen X). Churchgoing Millennials, however, are about as likely to misidentify (36%) as to correctly identify (34%) the Great Commission. Although not even half of any age group knows the Great Commission well, the youngest adult generation is least likely to recognize it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/d632257c-2e8f-4030-a2e7-de50b2b80893/Pentecost2+%287%29.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” Acts 2:1-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689944063421-K41YNTL839E43W7VS88F/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - #2 How should Christians respond to this goal? It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. John Mott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/41a1d603-a71b-40e0-987d-319774f38791/BU-Chart_Great-Commission-2.jpg SENT - #1 The globe is the goal. - Can you correctly identify the Great Commission? Taking a different tack, Barna also presented churchgoers with five different passages from scripture and asked them to identify which one is known as the Great Commission. A little more than one-third of churchgoers (37%) correctly identifies the Bible passage—far more than those who recognize the Great Commission in name alone. Nearly all of the churchgoers who indicate they have previously heard of the Great Commission (94%) also select the passage in Matthew 28. The remainder of churchgoers either does not know which of these verses is the Great Commission (33%) or offers an incorrect answer (31%). https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction-a9dbf-46ml2 monthly 0.5 2024-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/97fe0dfe-c368-43d6-8d96-ef7b89268f1e/Jesus-Walking-Sand-2-960x540.jpg SENT - #2 God is the Missionary. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/b83159ae-5c95-4170-b753-c6b361e692b3/Screen+Shot+2023-07-21+at+4.41.14+PM.jpg SENT - #2 God is the Missionary. - Differentiating between the Mission of God and missions. Gospel-centered mission puts God and what He has done and doing at the center of any missions discussion. Gospel-centered missionaries derive their motivation, power, hope, and queues about world evangelization from their God who Himself is on mission. They understand missions, in contrast, to be the rightful response to what God has already done and is doing in the world. The Great Commission is merely joining God in His already great missionary enterprise. What should be at the center of any missions related discussion? What are the ramifications of not getting this right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689978635933-S7UW4095CQU7HU64JRCZ/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #2 God is the Missionary. - #1 How is God like a missionary? Or better yet, how are missionaries like God? The Christian God is a Missionary God. What are all the characteristics of God that can be used to understand Him as the Missionary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/85e43dce-9318-4727-8ab7-eaae20f289a9/The-World-as-100-Christians.jpg SENT - #2 God is the Missionary. - Look over this graphic depicting the world as 100 Christians. What are the two most surprising details about the global church as represented in this graphic? What does this tell you about the missionary heart of God? Read Revelation 5:9-10, Revelation 7:9-10, and Revelation 14:6-7. What has Jesus’ missionary life and death accomplished for heaven? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1689977793401-5JZPX2F12B0EMCATMSN2/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #2 God is the Missionary. - #2 We are missionaries, aren’t we? Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. How is God’s missionary purpose and our missionary purposes intertwined? https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction-a9dbf-46ml2-eg3jk monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690231484921-AASSC6QJ4O37XSK1H5WE/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - #1 What are stories, themes, or verses in the Bible that have to do with missions? Think of the Garden of Eden. When did God perform his first act of mission? Read Genesis 3:8-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/2ddc0bd7-6464-4b40-8b0f-00615f7590ff/hands+of+god.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - Conversation #1 — Be fruitful and multiply my image God’s first words to His people are recorded in Genesis 1:26, 27, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690231630622-U6A902VXU6BLS2NL21OG/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - Defining the Bible If someone asked you to come up with a definition of the Bible what would you say? How would you define it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690239640312-5YJTS92DDCCKIRKBDV9F/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - Commissioned to GO Read the 4 Great Commission verses at the end of every gospel and note what is similar between them and what is distinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690236053050-RAWBALDMFRMHG1AG0ID0/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - The story of the Bible The unfolding of the Bible can be understood in two conversations between man and God. One in Genesis, and one in Matthew. They are the first recorded words of God to His people and His last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690236120084-SYZI08Y1G5BL7ZNCOLS3/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - Conversation #2 - Be fruitful and multiply my image spiritually The last words spoke to His people before the resurrection was also one of image-making in Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/129f5545-f224-4ff8-9523-01d178081240/Tall-Infographic_2021_EN+copy.png SENT - #3 The Bible, the Book of Mission - Q & A What are the two most surprising details shared in this infographic? Read Romans 10:14-17. Why is Bible translation so important? https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction-a9dbf-46ml2-eg3jk-htmw3 monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/45f8b98a-55b0-4294-be62-fb97c9c62844/people+groups.png SENT - #4 God’s World in Need - ETHNE = NATIONS (as in peoples, not countries) And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all [ethne]. Matthew 28:19 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all [ethne], and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/f3f9c029-9ada-4ddf-a9b7-96a6784d905f/nigeria.png SENT - #4 God’s World in Need - NATIONS ≠ POLITICAL BOUNDARIES IN THE BIBLE Most people think of nations like the picture to the right of Nigeria—We think of political boundaries. But the Bible understands nations and thinks of people boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/7adc643e-86c4-4315-8db3-77d4ea08a606/1140black-1024x768.png SENT - #4 God’s World in Need - 10/40 window • 2/3 of the world’s population lives here accounting for about 5 billion people total. • Three out of every five people in the 10/40 window have no access to the gospel. Roughly 70% of the people groups in this region have no access to a Christian that can tell them about Jesus. • The poorest of the poor live in the 10/40 window. The “poor are the lost and the lost are the poor.” All top 50 of the least-reached mega-cities in our world lie here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690240158643-OX8KWNAO077148ZB3VF6/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #4 God’s World in Need - #1 If you could snap your fingers and immediately solve one of our world’s problems what would it be? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1690240413068-85V0SX93T9JJYWFZIK6E/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #4 God’s World in Need - #2 The world stats 28,000 people a day are forced to leave their home countries because of conflict or persecution. 40% of the world’s peoples lack basic sanitation and live on less than $2 a day. By 2050, 70% of the world will be urban. 141,000 new non-Christians enter our globe’s cities everyday. Annual church embezzlement (20 billion) exceeds the total of all financial gifts given to missions worldwide. Only .05% of Christian income is given to sustain missions every year. https://www.forthelostworld.com/sent/introduction-a9dbf-46ml2-eg3jk-htmw3-d5bpj monthly 0.5 2023-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/1703088674207-MC2KBATIYYTF5E39E5NU/image-asset.jpeg SENT - #5 God’s Way is you! - #1 What would it look like for you to take your first steps toward becoming a world Christian—a Christian who prays, yearns, serves, gives and goes that the world may know? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/6cff62dc-ad86-4cce-9c0c-5fb8619e48ab/CO_Joint_Logo.png SENT - #5 God’s Way is you! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/637c9622-4abf-4fb8-bcb2-aa39baea3fb5/Screenshot+2023-12-20+at+9.41.50%E2%80%AFAM.png SENT - #5 God’s Way is you! - Are you a COLORING BOOK Is your life more like a coloring book when it comes to Great Commission application? Meaning, you have predetermined lines, shapes, and objects that must be part of your life, but you will happily let God choose the colors. You must have that spouse, that job, that house, that car, and that retirement savings, but you simply let God choose colors. And you strictly say, “But you must stay within the lines!” You own the pen and the eraser. Sadly, God only gets crayons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6410aa14fac6673019c713b4/697bca99-a3b5-4d12-a55e-a0c1823ff488/Screenshot+2023-12-20+at+9.47.32%E2%80%AFAM.png SENT - #5 God’s Way is you! - …or more like a Canvas? Have you opened your entire life to God’s commission and given Him a blank check of sorts which you have signed at the bottom? Is He free to write whatever amount however He chooses? Have you given God a canvas? 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