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Adult On Mission Strategies

• discover your mission
• through mission education

Sean Taylor Strategist, Adult Mission
Education North American Mission Board, SBC
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What if ?

• Every Christian was on mission?
• Every church was fulfilling its purpose?
• Your church was reaching your community and the
  world?
• You could discover your fit for living out the
  Great Commission?

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Our new role

• For the North American Mission Board,
• mission education is a new responsibility
• for a new agency and is seen as vitally
• important to our task of mobilizing
• Christians for the Great Commission.

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Why mission education?

• To encourage the spiritual transformation of
  regular
• Christians into on mission Christians, using
  Mission
• Education organizations, resources, strategies
  and events
• designed to awaken Christians and churches to
  personal
• involvement in the Great Commission, help them to
  
• make adjustments that allow them to actively join
  
• God on mission, and grow to be passionate
• advocates for worldwide mission causes.

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What well learn about the mission

• What is my mission?
• What is the on mission lifestyle?
• What are my mission fields?
• What skills do I need to be on mission?
• What is my personal shape and fit for being
  on mission?

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What well learn about strategies

• What is a strategy?
• What strategies are available?
• Can I create my own strategies?
• How do I create my own strategies?
• What new strategies are planned?

Objectives
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UnderstandingGods Mission
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What is my mission?

• Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will make
  you fishers of men (Matthew 419).

Understanding Gods Mission
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What is my mission?

• All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of
  all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and
  teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
  you. And surely I am with you always, to the very
  end of the age (Matthew 28 18-20).

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What is my mission?

• But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
  comes on you and you will be my witnesses in
  Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
  the ends of the earth (Acts 18).

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What is my mission?

• The Acts 18 Strategy
• Jerusalem
• Judea
• Samaria
• Ends of the Earth

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What is theon mission lifestyle?

• Spiritually Awakened
• Continually Adjusting
• Evangelistically Active
• A Passionate Advocate

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What are my mission fields?

• My Life
• My Family
• My Church
• My Workplace
• My Neighborhood

• My Association
• My State
• My Nation
• My World

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What skills do I need to be on mission?

• Knows the mission
• Prays
• Focuses on a group
• Trains cross-culturally
• Develops relationships
• Strategizes

• Develops strategic partnerships
• Trains to serve
• Implements plans
• Delivers the message
• Disciples new believers
• Shares with other Christians

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What is my personal shape and fit for the
mission?

• My skills
• My talents
• My interests

How could these skills and talents be used on
mission?
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What is a strategy?

• Simply put an adult on-mission strategy is a plan
  to reach one of nine mission fields during a
  specified time by partnering with a small group
  of like-minded lay missionary adults.

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What strategiesare available?

• My Purpose, His Plan
• Who Me? Help Start a Church?
• Extended Welcome
• The Adventure of His Mission

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My Purpose, His Plan

• Helps your church members understand Gods
  mission and their role in it
• Preparatory study for a mission trip
• Preparatory study before starting Mission
  Education organizations in the church
• Great follow-up to Experiencing God
• Mission Education 101

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My Purpose, His Plan

• Components include
• Leaders Guide
• 13-Session Student Workbook
• Video

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Who Me?Help Start a Church?

• Learn it!What is church planting?
• Live it!I can help plant a church.
• Make it last!Where do I go from here?

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Who Me?Help Start a Church?

• Components include
• Group Discovery Guide
• Participants Handbook
• New Churches NeededOur Church Can Help video

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Extended Welcome

• Pray for visitors.
• Think like a visitor.
• Investigate current welcoming methods.
• Get involved.
• Make a meaningful connection.
• Tell your story of faith.
• Help new believers grow in Christ.

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Extended Welcome

• Components include
• Workbook with leaders notes

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The Adventure of His Mission

• See the need to be mobilized.
• Understand the mission.
• Identify the characteristics of a mobilized
  Christian.
• Be mission active.
• Seek strategic mission opportunities.
• Go on a strategic mission trip.

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The Adventure of His Mission

• Components include
• Workbook with leaders notes
• CD-ROM with preparatory helps

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Can I createmy own strategies?

• Yes!
• Yes!
• Yes!
• in fact, please do

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How do I createmy own strategies?

• Identify an unreached person or people group.
• Personalize the mission skills.
• Form a plan.
• Do the plan.
• Evaluate the plan.

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What upcomingstrategies are planned?

• Family mission trip strategy
• Disaster Relief strategy
• Construction project strategy
• Hunger relief strategy
• Workplace strategy
• College adults campus strategy
• And more...

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For more information ...

• Call 770.410.6491 (Gail Miller)
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail
• ame_at_namb.net
• staylor_at_namb.net
• mwilliams_at_namb.net
• Web www.namb.net/educate

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Adult On Mission Strategies
Sean Taylor Strategist, Adult Mission
Education North American Mission Board, SBC