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Mission
› an important assignment given to a person
or group of people.
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Mission – in religious term
› the vocation or calling of a religious
organization, especially a Christian one, to
go out and serve.
Mission is the participation of Christians in the
liberating mission of Jesus.
 It is the good news of God’s love, incarnated in
the witness of a community for the sake of the
world. David Bosch Transforming Mission
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Is there a mission of the church?
“It’s not the church that has a mission.
It’s the God of mission who has a church.”
Tim Dearbourne
If the church is worried about itself, it cannot
be a church but a club of like-minded people
trying to exist for their own pleasure and
needs.
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John 3:15 – “Indeed, God did not send
the Son into the world to condemn the
world, but in order that the world might
be saved through him.”
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John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not
perish but may have eternal life.”
Locally
 Regionally
 Globally
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Mission is...
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Caring For Individual People and
Communities
Building Partnerships With Other
Churches And Groups Who Share Some
Of Our Mission
Sharing the Task of Education and Social
and Spiritual Development
Struggling for a just world.
Being alongside the poor
Mission is...
6. Becoming friends with people of different
cultures and faiths
7. Caring for the Earth
8. Telling the good news of Jesus
9. Calling people to faith in Jesus Christ and
Christian Discipleship
Compassion
 Commitment
 Cost (time – availability)
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What are the resources we need?
› People who know God’s love to make God’s
love known
› Inspiration through preaching and teaching
to do God’s mission
› Prayerful discernment of what God wants us
to do
With other Churches
 Apostolic faith, evangelism, discipline,
preaching of the word, class meetings,
personal and social holiness
 Committed to the reign of God and the
proclamation of the good news for all
 Condemnation of world economic
system that exploits the poor for the
benefit of the rich
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Do what you can
Where you are
With what you have
You supply the willingness
God supplies the power - Anon
Good news to the poor
 Proclaim release to the captives
 Recovery of sight to the blind
 Let the oppressed go free
 Proclaim the year of the Lord
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You are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God…1Peter 2: 9
Therefore we must engage in
God’s mission
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“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has
lost its taste, how can its saltiness be
restored? It is no longer good for anything, but
is thrown out and trampled under foot.
“You are the light of the world. A city built on
a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a
lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on
the lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the
house. In the same way, let your light shine
before others, so that they may see your
good works and give glory to your Father in
heaven.
› Matthew 5:13 – 16
Any mission we engage in needs to be
reviewed.
 One year or two or three years
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Why?
Yesterday’s missions are today’s
maintenance
 We must not get caught in the structure
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Mission
Machine
Monument
If you have some work to do,
Start this very hour;
You supply the willingness,
God supplies the power.
— Anon.