The Doctrine Of Reformed Theology

Lesslie Newbigin diagnoses the present missionary movement as exclusively interested in Christ and lacking the richness of trinitarian doctrine.4 This is dangerous, he writes, because “the mission of the church is to be understood, can only be rightly understood, in terms of the trinitarian model.”5 A study of early theologians identifies similar shortcomings in missiology. Craig Ott, et al. find that while Augustine and Thomas Aquinas presented a theology of divine missions rooted in the Father sending the Son and the Father and Son sending the Spirit, they failed to connect the sending action of the Godhead to the sending of the church.6 Ott emphasizes that rooting missiology in trinitarian activity highlights God’s initiative in missions.7 Bryan Stone adds that evangelism, as part of this God-initiated directive, cannot be confined as an offer of Christ to the world, but must be part of the single motion began by the Father through the work of the Son and the power of the Spirit.8 This places missiology squarely in the territory of trinitarian doctrine.

In the world of the Church there must be a mission to be captured. If it is not to go and spread the Gospel, what is the point of the church? The Missio Dei stands as a guide for the church. Describing the Church’s mission through Missio Dei requires a look at not only the Abrahamic Covenant and relationship between the church and missions, but the role of missions within the church as whole.

“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.

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

Summary: In the story The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight, the author Scot McKnight took us as the readers step by step through his very own theological beliefs. Mr. McKnight focus through this reading was the questioning of what is the gospel and what are the major differences between Gospel culture and Salvation culture. Within this reading Scot McKnight’s thinking will have all that Christians rethinking what Christianity really is. This reading speaks on how we as people compare the word gospel with the word salvation but, both are two different terms that are expressed differently, and Scot McKnight goes through and explains why both are different. I believe this is a very controversial book because not all will agree with the author. One of the authors biggest arguments was that when many answer the question, “what the gospel is” they typically aren’t answering the question of what is the gospel but are more like presenting the plan of salvation. The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight is a reading that will have you refocusing your mindset when it comes to Christianity. This book speaks on how we as people sometimes forget that life, death, and resurrection, and the assignation of Jesus Christ will always outweigh our personal salvation. This book covers how we as the Christian community have taken the gospel and made it into a plan of salvation as well as a method of persuasion but doing so with understanding a small portion of the gospel but not the full portion

Suppose I ask you, “What are the essentials of the gospel message?” Would you be able to articulate them clearly? For the believer to be effective in evangelism, he needs to clearly understand what Scripture declares the gospel is. Please turn to 1 Corinthians 15. The apostle Paul gives us the precise definition and content of the gospel message in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4The Gospel message in its simplest form is this: Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead. Paul mentions Christ’s burial to emphasize the reality of His death. Jesus did not merely fall unconscious on the cross and later become conscious in the tomb and found a way to escape (Swoon hypothesis). He died, and His death was a payment for our sins. Paul also in verses 5 through 8 includes a list of eyewitnesses to support the reality of the resurrection. The gospel literally means “good news”. It is good news because it is an answer to the problem of sin. The good news is that Christ has provided a way for sinners to be forgiven instead of punished. We are all sinners by nature and by choice. We have all failed to live according to God’s standard of perfection (Rom 3:23). Because of this, we are separated from God and deserve to spend eternity in hell (Rom 6:23). By ourselves we can do nothing to be reconciled with God because we cannot pay for our own sin. But God loves us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to this world to do what we cannot on our behalf. Without ceasing to be God, Jesus became a

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.

What to be preached is Christ whom they crucified; the Incarnated Word (John 1: 14 NKJV), He is the only foundation that is required for building our faith. Once it is laid it never needs to be repeated (1 Corinth. 3:11 NKJV).

Mission is seen as the comprehensive label for the Church’s response to God’s calling while missions are the particular ways and organizational structures through which the Church’s global outreach is carried out. Christ’s Great Commission is a powerful call to the Church to win and disciple those of all people groups. Mission is rooted in the

It is this testimony of faith in Christ that helps break down the barrier that stands in between the believer and unbeliever so often. As we have heard in our lectures, the way Jesus did evangelism was modeled in the way he lived. Jesus was intentional about his witness as should be the believer. He looked for opportunities to show his love. The believer needs to adapt this into their daily life in order to help clear up the wrong perspectives of the gospel. My emerging biblical theology of evangelism is being enhanced in seeing different and more exciting ways to share the gospel. In order to change the view of many concerning the gospel we must let people see that they do not need to “wash their hands after shaking the hand of a religious person.” The believer does not need to become like the unbeliever but does not need to be seen as a pious, egotistical,

However, I ascertained that the ultimate level that was made about missions is that we are to build disciples. Mathew 28:19-20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. The disciples taught them to keep all that was required. The Lord let them known Leo, I am with you always, even to the close of the historic period. "According to Gailey, this would be the missionary station. Missions and so would be the things we do to reach our mission (Feeding the poor, clothing the naked)

The missionary activity of today’s church directly relates to God’s purposes which He revealed in the Old Testament. God makes it very clear in the Old Testament that He expected His followers to engage in world-wide missions. When Genesis 1-11 ; the fall of man (Gen. 3), the great do-over: the story of Noah and the flood (Gen. 6-9), and the Tower of Babel dispersion (Gen. 11); is viewed as the introduction to the rest of God’s story, the universal and international range of His purpose is revealed. Nearly each book of the Old Testament demonstrates God’s desire for world-wide missions. Abraham was told by God that “…in you

First, by demonstrating and giving the truth of the Gospel to people a pastor encounters they will be able to effectively lead some of them to salvation in Jesus Christ. Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:3-5 that it is God’s desire to have all people that are made in His likeness and image to be saved through Jesus Christ. When a pastor takes this scripture to its purposeful message they must demonstrate and give the Gospel to the people they encounter in order to please God’s desire. Secondly, when a pastor lives out the Gospel they demonstrate to other Christians how to follow God’s will. The pastor is to do this by living out and teaching the truths that are found in scriptures. By effectively doing this they will bring people made in the image of God into His will upon their life. When a pastor lives and demonstrates the truth of the Gospel to every person they encounter they lead them to salvation through Christ, along with brining current Christians into the will of God by bringing them into the will of God they will fulfill their purpose given from God for the people made in His

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.

To understand “Mission Theology” we first have separate the two words. Mission is the vocation or calling of a religion organization, especially a Christian one, to go out into the world and spread its faith (Oxford Dictionaries). Theology is the study of God or the study of the nature of God and the relationship between the human and divine. In the textbook we use for class which is called “Introducing World Missions” we are told that the word “missions” (which ending with the letter “s”) is the word that is used to explain “the particular assignment of making disciples of all nations.” We have to understand that the word “mission” refers to everything the church does that indicates concerning the Kingdom of God. Mission Theology is known as God’s relationship in mission and how he develops his creation.