Engaging the Missional Mandate

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Engaging the Missional Mandate

• 3 Purposes
• Describe Current Reality
• Determine Commission Requisites
• Discern Kingdom Rationale

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I. Describe Current Reality
Source The American Church Research Project, 2006
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I. Describe Current Reality
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Current Realities State of the American Church
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I. Describe Current Reality
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Current Realities State of the American Church
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• Determine Commission
• Requisites

One Great Commission


5 Perspectives
5 Requisites
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• Determine Commission
• Requisites

5 Perspectives
5 Requisites
Mark 1615.Connecting Luke
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2818-20.Discipling John 2021,
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• Determine Commission
• Requisites

Kingdom
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And He said to them, Go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature (Mark
1615, NKJV).
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Then He said to them, Thus it is written, and
thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day, and that
repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in His name to all nations, beginning at
Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these
things (Luke 2446-48, NKJV).
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And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all things that I have commanded
you and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age. Amen (Matthew 2818-20,
NKJV).
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So Jesus said to them again, Peace to you! As
the Father has sent Me, I also send you. And
when He had said this, He breathed on them, and
said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit
(John 2021-22, NKJV).
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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you  and you shall be witnesses to
Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth (Acts 18, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
Top Ten Reasons to Engage the Missional Mandate
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Believers Judgment
• Therefore we make it our aim, whether present
  or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we
  must all appear before the judgment seat of
  Christ, that each one may receive the things done
  in the body, according to what he has done,
  whether good or bad. Knowing, therefore, the
  terror of the Lord, we persuade men but we are
  well known to God, and I also trust are well
  known in your consciences
• (2 Corinthians 59-11, NKJV).

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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
9. Historys Heroes Still others had trial of
mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and
imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in
two, were tempted, were slain with the sword.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins,
being destitute, afflicted, tormented
(Hebrews 1136-37, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Historys Heroes
• of whom the world was not worthy. They
  wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and
  caves of the earth. And all these, having
  obtained a good testimony through faith, did not
  receive the promise, God having provided
  something better for us, that they should not be
  made perfect apart from us
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Historys Heroes
• When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the
  altar the souls of those who had been slain for
  the word of God and for the testimony which they
  held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying,
  How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge
  and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the
  earth?
• (Revelation 69-10)

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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
9. Historys Heroes Then a white robe was given
to each of them and it was said to them that
they should rest a little while longer, until
both the number of their fellow servants and
their brethren, who would be killed as they were,
was completed (Revelation 611, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
8. Eternal Hell Then He will also say to those
on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed,
into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil
and his angels (Matthew 2541, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
8. Eternal Hell And I say to you, My friends,
do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and
after that have no more that they can do. But I
will show you whom you should fear Fear Him who,
after He has killed, has power to cast into hell
yes, I say to you, fear Him! (Luke 124,
5, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
7. Lost People For the Son of Man has come to
save that which was lost. What do you think? If a
man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes
astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go
to the mountains to seek the one that is
straying? (Matthew 1811-12)
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
7. Lost People And if he should find it,
assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over
that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not
go astray. Even so it is not the will of your
Father who is in heaven that one of these little
ones should perish (Matthew 1813-14, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
7. Lost People And when he comes home, he calls
together his friends and neighbors, saying to
them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep
which was lost! I say to you that likewise
there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner
who repents than over ninety-nine just persons
who need no repentance. (Luke 156-7)
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Lost People
• And when she has found it, she calls her
  friends and neighbors together, saying, Rejoice
  with me, for I have found the piece which I
  lost! Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in
  the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
  who repents. . . . For this my son was dead and
  is alive again he was lost and is found. And
  they began to be merry
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Kingdom Authority
• And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
  authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
  earth (Matthew 2818, NKJV).
• For the kingdom of God is not in word but in
  power (1 Corinthians 420, NKJV).
• (Ephesians 13, 20 26 310 612)

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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
5. Pentecostal Priority However, when He, the
Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you
into all truth. . . . He will glorify Me, for
He will take of what is Mine and
declare it to you. All things that the Father
has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will
take of Mine and declare it to you (John
1613a, 14, 15, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Pentecostal Priority
• For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since
  it is only the third hour of the day. But this is
  what was spoken by the prophet Joel And it
  shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
  That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh
  And it shall come to pass, that whoever calls on
  the name of the Lord shall be saved
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
4. Childrens Children For the promise is to
you and to your children, and to all who are
afar off, as many as the Lord our God will
call (Acts 239, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Childrens Children
• Let no one despise your youth, but be an
  example to the believers in word, in conduct, in
  love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I
  come, give attention to reading, to exhortation,
  to doctrine.
• Do not neglect the gift that is in you. . . .
  Take
• heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue
  in them, for in doing this you will save both
  yourself and those who hear you
• (1 Timothy 412-13, 14a, 16, NKJV).

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Generational Characteristics
Categories Generation X Generation Y Nexters
Birth Date 1961 1980 1981 2001
Population 60 Million 74 Million
Defining Events Roe vs. WadeFall of Berlin WallAIDSComputers Terrorist AttacksInternetDesert Storm technology
View of Family Latch-key kidsSingle Parent / Blended families Loose family structureSingle parent
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Generational Characteristics
Categories Generation X Generation Y Nexters
View of Authority Ignore leaders and dont try to become one Respects authority, but not awed by it
View of Technology Enjoy it Enjoy it
Slogans No Fear NoWhateverWant it right now
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Generational Characteristics
Categories Generation X Generation Y Nexters
Religious Characteristics Committed to family Short attention span Denominations not important Want less structure Committed to family Biblically illiterate Spiritually hungry Multiple expressions of worship Highly tolerant and open
Characteristics Neglected by parents Loyal to relationships Stressed out Self-reliant Skeptical Highly spiritual Survivors Cherished by parents Groomed to achieve and excel Entrepreneurial Hard workers who thrive on flexibility Most socially conscious Volunteerism high
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
3. Christs Love Greater love has no one than
this, than to lay down ones life for his
friends (John 1513, NKJV). For
the love of Christ compels us, because we judge
thus that if One died for all, then all
died (2 Corinthians 514, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Christs Return
• And this gospel of the kingdom will be
  preached in all the world as a witness to all the
  nations, and then the end will come.
• But of that day and hour no one knows, not
  even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
• Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of
  Man is coming at an hour you do not expect
  (Matthew 2414, 36, 44, NKJV).

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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Christs Return
• For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven
  with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and
  with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ
  will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain
  shall be caught up together with them in the
  clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we
  shall always be with the Lord
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
1. Christs Gospel For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to
salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew
first and also for the Greek. For in it the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to
faith as it is written, The just shall live by
faith (Romans 116-17, NKJV).
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale

• Christs Gospel
• Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the
  gospel which I preached to you, which also you
  received and in which you stand, by which also
  you are saved, if you hold fast that word which
  I preached to youunless you believed in vain.
  For I delivered to you first of all that which
  I also received that Christ died for our sins
  according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was
  buried, and that He rose again the third day
  according to the Scriptures (I Corinthians
  151-4, NKJV).
• Romans 116-17

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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
10. Believers Judgment 9. Historys Heroes
8. Eternal Hell 7. Lost People 6. Kingdom
Authority
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III. Discern Kingdom Rationale
5. Pentecostal Priority 4. Childrens
Children 3. Christs Love 2. Christs
Return 1. Christs Gospel
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Statement of Mission
The mission of the Church of God is to
communicate the full gospel of Jesus Christ
(Matthew 2819-20) in the Spirit and power of
Pentecost (Acts 21-4,6,13-18). 2008
International General Assembly Minutes, p. 37
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