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Engaging in God’s mission
Rev. Prince Devanandan
What is Mission?
Mission
Mission› an important assignment given to a person
or group of people.
Mission – in religious term› the vocation or calling of a religious
organization, especially a Christian one, to go out and serve.
What is a Christian’s mission? 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
What is the mission of a church?
Is there a mission of the church?
Church exists to serve Godin God’s mission
“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.
What is God’s mission? 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.”
What is God’s mission?
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.”
How do we perceive our mission?
Locally Regionally Globally
As smaller congregations w
hat is
our missi
on?
LOCALLY
In our local context – mission is being the embodiment of Christ’s Love.
How Can we
do this?
Mission is...
1. Caring For Individual People and Communities
2. Building Partnerships With Other Churches And Groups Who Share Some Of Our Mission
3. Sharing the Task of Education and Social and Spiritual Development
4. Struggling for a just world. 5. 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
What is required for mission?
Compassion Commitment Cost (time – availability)
How do we find resources for God’s mission in our village / suburb?
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
Partnership
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
Go out into God’s mission to
Do what you canWhere you are
With what you have
You supply the willingnessGod supplies the power - Anon
God’s Mission – Biblical descriptionLuke 4: 18,19
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
Worship – is where the people come to know God’s mission The church’s role is to increase awareness of God’s presence among the people, to obey God’s call to serve and to celebrate God’s love. Once the people are aware – they go out to live out what they have experienced.
Why should we engage in mission?
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
How do we engage in God’s mission?
“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
TIMEFRAME for MISSION
Any mission we engage in needs to be reviewed.
One year or two or three years
Why?
Yesterday’s missions are today’s maintenance
We must not get caught in the structure
Mission Machine
Monument
If you have some work to do,Start this very hour;
You supply the willingness,God supplies the power.
— Anon.
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