The Ministry Of Jesus Christ

My personal view of mission revolves around Servant Leadership or what can be better called “Incarnational leadership”. This is rooted in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, as “He took a towel” (John 13:2-5) and washed Peter’s feet. He was efficient with people, had goals in sight, but was also relational over being task-driven. This kind of leadership produces new churches filled with real purpose and motivation as people are called, appreciated, loved, encouraged, discipled, involved by mentoring and discipleship before they are deployed in ministry (Prov. 27:23; Mark 10:35-45; Luke 22:26; John 13:2-17; 1 Cor. 3- 4; Eph. 4:1-16; Col. 3:13; 1 Thess. 5:13-14; 1 Peter 3:8;

Galindo analyzes that the fundamental “mission” of a congregation is the same as any other congregation that exists in any part of the world. He argues that though every congregation has a mission and a vision, at the same time, it shares a basic common mission. (43) This reminds me of my home church The First Church of Evanston and my Field Site, The Evanston Vineyard Church. Both churches have a common mission of welcoming people to the church, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural, racial, and economic and, gender backgrounds. The mission is to help people be received in the house of God with due and deserved Christian love so that they feel loved and welcomed. Both these churches encourage church attendees to attend the service and receive the Eucharist.

I had the privilege of interviewing Brian Bagwell for this project. He is, in my opinion, one of most humble, wisest man we have at Church of the Highlands. Once you get through a joke or two, the fruits of the spirit radiate from his personality. A man that I have the privilege to call my mentor and teacher. He is currently serving on staff at the Church of the Highlands as a Dream Team Coordinator. His shares the vision of the church which is passed down from our senior pastor, Chris Hodges. Evangelism is the definition of the church so to speak, Church of the Highlands stands behind the final authority of God’s word which is the bible. It is often said among the staff “we do not argue the essentials, but we can disagree the non essentials.” The church believes and acts in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, and helping people move through four steps our God has outlined in the Great Commission. Our Church exists to see people saved, delivered, redeemed, and fulfilled. This is accomplished with four systems that allow the people to move through the four steps. The first is weekend services to allow them to know God (saved), small groups to find freedom (delivered), growth track to discover purpose (redeemed), and dream team to be fulfilled and make a difference (fulfilled). This vision is how the church evangelizes (Bagwell). This vision is clear to all members of the church who call Church of the Highlands home, and even clear to people

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.

A ministry must have a focus and vision in order to effectively do the work of God. The importance of this vision is highlighted when the Bible says, “Where [there is] no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). Mancini described the Kingdom Concept as consisting of the “big idea” that will define the way a church will bring glory to God and help to make disciples (Mancini, 2008, p. 84). It is from these concepts that this student will identify several major needs in personal work of ministry. These needs are supported by compelling evidence and aide in focusing efforts of work.

Like John Pipers states at his closing remarks, “the purpose of this book has not been merely to inform you of the supremacy of God in missions, Rather, from start to finish we have sought to invite you to become more personally engaged in the cause of missions with a heartfelt, God-centered passion” (p. 263). His aim has not been to exalt the missionary but to exalt God and to exalt his mission. The precise nature of your engagement in the cause of missions will be different from that of any other person. Where you go as a missionary or stay as a sender is a secondary issue. The primary issue is that whatever you do, you do it for the glory of God (p.

Whereas, in understanding the nature of mission as given to us in the New and Old Testament, it's reveal the that God is the author of mission is by laying much emphasis on what God rather than man does this reveal in the term Missio Dei, God's mission. This in term let it be known that it is insufficient to proclaim that the Church of God has a mission in the world. Rather, the God of mission has a Church in the world. In reading Introducing World Missions, one would come to understand that " mission theology must be at the core of theology - within the character and action of God Himself." This being a part of God show the need of God to be a part of His creation with Him being the source by which the characterizing of the worlds is seen in Him. When we look at the work of Jesus then we see the root cause of mission and the mean by which on

For this assignment, I interviewed Sidney C. Frazier Sr., Pastor of Full Faith Ministries located on John’s Island, SC. Full Faith opened their doors on Mother’s Day in May, 1997. When given the vision to start this ministry, Pastor Frazier invested within himself leadership development by going to other organizations for training in ministry. This is the first valuable lesson I learned from this interview; I never planned on becoming an adult learner until the Lord told me to enroll in Springfield College in 2011, in order to learn of principles in human services, to learn men’s way, and now in Liberty University to learn God’s way in combining both together according to Luke 2:52 (NIV) “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” God wanted me to

In The Disciple Making Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality, author Glenn McDonald addresses what he sees as the critical element missing from the modern Christian Church: discipleship. McDonald, who owns a Master of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is the senior pastor at Zionsville Presbyterian Church, which was once a traditional large suburban church, in that it focused more on the needs of the church than the needs of the parishioners. In this book, McDonald discusses how he helped transform his church from a traditional church to a church that emphasizes discipleship.

I desire to be part of a community that values creativity in how we partner with God in ministry, commitment to a particular people and place, and the necessary work to facilitate reconciliation between all people and God. Slow Church helped me to better articulate these ideas, but I am still learning how to lead others in living them out. As Smith and Pattison reminded me repeatedly through their book, these are all ordinary things, lived out in our day to day lives (Smith & Pattison, 2014, p. 223). It is my intention and my hope, by the grace of God, to keep practicing them for as long as I have

In a kingdom way of looking at things, mission is not just about saving individual souls from hell, as important as that is. Mission is about proclaiming a holistic gospel of the kingdom of God in the tradition of Jesus (Mark 1:15) and Paul (Acts 28:31), both of whom preached healing that was spiritual, physical, emotional, and political. Thinking in kingdom of God terms will enable people to grasp the missionary implications of a key phrase of the Lord’s Prayer: “Your kingdom come, your will be done” (Matthew 6:10) (Gailey, Culbertson p

4. State your own theology of mission for the church, incorporating a statement on the way in which the church has “presence” in the world of a reconciling nature.

The first idea that stood out for me was about the initial conversion in connection to further discipleship. Dr. Sunquist reminds us that the goal of evangelism is not just the initial conversion but further transformation. The conversion is "the passageway to becoming a disciple" (325). Too often, the church focuses on the initial response to evangelism without a call to commitment, to becoming a real follower of Jesus. It is not enough to just announce the Kingdom of God, thinking that God will do the rest without our involvement. The church ought to proclaim the gospel, which leads to conversion, and to provide for discipleship, which leads to the spiritual transformation. Furthermore, even the initial response does not always happen just

My personal mission theology is disciplining and proclaiming the pure word of God in the correct context to those that claim to be abiding in Jesus Christ. This includes pointing out and warning them against false doctrine and belief systems. Contrasting what the modern institutions preach about what it means to be a child of God against what scripture actually says it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.

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.