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Description of Perspectives
Perspectives Lesson Summary
A Lesson Summary of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
Passion, Hope, and Significance
Fifteen lesson format (plus a mobilization week), designed to emphasize vision and passionate, life-integrating action of hope for the fulfillment of God's global purpose.
More than anything else, Perspectives is about God: what God has always promised to bring forth on the earth, how God has moved with purpose throughout the ages and generations, and how God summons His people to fulfill a mandate to fight evil with Him, so that there is established in every people a substantial following of Christ, which names Him and makes Him known in worshipful obedience. Mission obedience is assumed to be less a matter of challenging Christians to carry out duty to meet needs all over the world, as it is an invitation by God for people to join Him in His deeds. There is a fundamental passion for God's glory that allows a more abundant compassion for people.
Vision to Action
Each lesson will have a Vision-to-Action exercise, designed to help the student integrate the global vision with lifestyle and life-course matters.
The Lessons
The lessons are designed with a key reading of 10 to 20 pages. It’s something that even the Enrichment students will want to be sure to take in. It will be presented in a double format: a reader and study guide as well as a notebook version. The notebook version will have the very same integrative notes as the study guide. The reader will have more readings than are contained in the notebook version. The idea is that both versions are identical. The reader/study guide format has the bonus of containing even more helpful readings and resources.
Biblical
1. The Living God is a Missionary God
o God's promise (Abraham)
o God's plan
o God's two-fold problem and single purpose
2. The Story of His Glory
o God's purpose of gaining worship from the nations
o Exodus/Conquest
o The Temple and global worship of the nations
o Prayer - rebelling against the status quo
3. The Kingdom Strikes Back
o Hope: The meaning and mystery of the kingdom of God
o The message of the Kingdom of God
o A vision of the kingdom, and laboring for justice now.
o A Warfare mentality, contending with evil in all of it’s forms
o Spiritual warfare amidst the nations, preparing the way for evangelism
4. A Man and a Mandate for All Peoples
o Jesus and the Gentiles
o Joining with God
o Great Commission
o The uniqueness of Christ
o Dealing with universalism
5. The Sending God
o God opens the door for the nations - apostles faithful
o Mandate for church planting without extraction from culture
o The value of peoples and cultures
o Apostolic suffering
History
6. The Expansion of the Christian Movement
o The 400 year periods: the continuity of the world Christian expansion
o The fruit of the faith - substantial blessing and healing of the nations
7. Eras of Mission History
o Three eras of modern missions
o Understanding the four stages of church-mission dynamics
o Women in missions
o Rise and Reality of Non-Western missions
o Trends of the modern mission force
8. Pioneers of the World Christian Movement
o Wm Carey / Hudson Taylor / Cam Townsend / McGavran
o Student movements
9. The Task Remaining
o Seeing the world as peoples
o Increase: Measuring the exposure to the gospel: World A, B, C
o Closure: Verifying the necessary response to the gospel
o Missiological breakthrough
o Assessing the size of the task
o The imbalance of mission force allocation
o The hope of mobilization possibilities
Culture
10. How Shall They Hear?
o Cross-cultural communication
o Social Structure
o Conversion
11. Building Bridges of Love
o Incarnation
o Identification - viable roles
o Encounters - power, commitment, truth
Strategy
12. Christian Development
o Survey of world need
o Development before/with/following gospel encounter
o Basic community development
o The role of the missionary and new church in transformation
o Do missionaries destroy culture?
13. The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches
o Multiplying churches by obedience oriented evangelism
o House churches and people movements
14. Pioneer Church Planting
o Frontier church planting
o "De-westernizing" gospel presentation
o case studies examined
15. World Christian Partnership
o World Christian lifestyle and roles of sending, welcoming, going
o World Christian teamwork with local church
o World Christian teamwork with mission structures
o World Christian teamwork with global movements
See History of Perspectives
See Perspectives Lesson Summary
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