Outline Of Revising Priorities And Starting Afresh

Last Sunday at church Father Ron said something that hit home for me. He said that a mission begins with an invitation. I grew up in a rural area in the highlands of Nairobi, Kenya. Life was not easy and I always made a point of maximizing the opportunities I got. I grew up knowing that I wanted to be in a profession that really helped people improve their wellbeing. When I got the opportunity to go to university I choose to do Biomedical Science because I was very good at science and I thought that being a scientist was my calling. However, becoming an adult and having varying experiences like volunteering in a children’s home, working in the field doing research, working in a laboratory and currently working as a nurse aide has taught me

“Most readers of Scripture will readily acknowledge that there is an unmistakable and clear evidence for asserting that the New Testament has a strong mission emphasis… But few will accord the Old Testament anything even approaching such a mission emphasis or missions mandate.” As I read this quote from Walter C. Kaiser, I couldn’t help but notice the intense truth behind it. It wasn’t until I began to study missions in the Old Testament that I really saw how integrated missions truly is in our Christian walk and in the Old Testament.

Some estimate that 70 percent of the worlds bible-believing Christians (as opposed to nominal or cultural Christians) now live in the majority world.”1 This reality should entirely changes the way we think about missions. If the greater part of Christians no longer live

Sustaining missionaries already on the mission field is absolutely critical in the expanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In David Hesselgrave's book: Planting Churches Cross Culturally, he gives Biblical and practical advice for local and foreign missions. He formerly taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. While offering good insight, the book is a bit lengthy and the illustrations can be confusing. Nevertheless, it's good for all Christians who are called to evangelize.

This article helps an individual identify what it is exactly that they are looking for when selecting their first short-term mission trip. The author describes how you may be involved in construction, evangelism, education, medical treatment, and ministry to people in the communities that are served. The article suggests that while one should be realistic about the depth of evangelism, it should not diminish the impact of the participation set forth in helping with the process of bringing individuals to receive Christ their Savior. Collins does encourage picking a large group for your first experience on a mission so you still have your teammates close by to provide familiarity with your own understand them, and work to fulfill them while

Rather than being seen as prescriptive categories with which to build a mission strategy, these five considerations can be used to evaluate and examine our presentation of the Gospel into a new people group or culture.

Among the challenge of understanding the people that you are ministering to or with is the challenge of being able to maintain high standards of moral behavior in a challenging environment (Martin.n.d). There is also the challenge of ever changing volunteers and the lack of volunteers (Martin.,n.d). As a Christian leader, we tend to believe that there will always be an abundance of volunteers to serve God but that is not always the case as I have witnessed personally.

Phineas Bresee made this his passion setting up churches in poverty ridden urban areas of Los Angeles. As I was mediating over this thought I was led to the scriptures to dig in and revisit some familiar scriptures and look at them in a new light. Scriptures such as Luke 4:18 and Matthew 11:5 where Jesus says the poor will have the good news preached to them. I have gotten a firsthand look at what this means being at my current church because we are in a pretty significantly poor neighborhood. We have outreaches for the community such as a food pantry, feeding the homeless, and various apartment outreaches and I can honestly say that this is all pretty new to me and I am learning from and trusting God though out this ministry that he currently has me in. I am led to think about if I am doing enough or if my mindset may be off a little. I look at it and see how many lives we get to bless by giving them food, but they need to hear the word of God more. We do have tracts available for these families and a standing invitation to church but something I am going to be looking at is how we can have a

God has a plan to reconcile His relationship with man after sin entered the world. This plan revolves around making His name known throughout all tribes and nations. From the Old Testament to the New Testament, the Bible presents God’s missionary purpose for humanity. For this reason, Christians involved in missions will travel to dangerous places to proclaim God’s name and saving power.

When Jesus preached His message of salvation and the Good News, he utilized a group of men called out from the standard set of disciples to assist Him. The men, who became known as the apostles, received direct instruction and training from the Son of God. The years under Jesus allowed them to become keenly aware of the holy message while at the same time growing and becoming more Christ-like. From this personal relationship with the Savior, this group of men would later go on to become the means the Gospel was initially distributed. While many lessons can be learned apart from the Gospel, the most significant missions principle of obedience is clearly demonstrated and can be used as a primary attitude to apply to missions today.

Paul’s three missionary journeys that are chronicled in the Book of Acts have to serve as the greatest example of missionary work and the greatest roadmap to follow for anyone called to the mission field. If anyone doubts that there is a need for missionaries in today have them answer these questions. “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Rom. 10:14) This one verse answers the question of why do we need missions in one fell swoop. From here and throughout the epistles God is calling his people to evangelize to all the nations.

Quote 3 :Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The last of the initial tasks for missions is spreading the Gospel. Once a strong, healthy body of believers has been organized that is well provided for and self-sufficient it

First of all, any missional mental model should be derived from missio Dei itself, which is "the mission of God to bring about redemption of the world" (Sunquist 2013, 7). When we carry this mission out in suffering for God’s eternal glory, we need to imagine how in the future his goodness, his beauty, and his harmony will cover the entire creation. I think it’s necessary for us to have this vision of his glory and be aware that whatever we do is not our own ministry. The idea of us joining the ministry of Jesus Christ is