IN THE BEGINNING WAS JESUS. WITHOUT THE PERSON OF JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE MESSIANIC SON OF MAN, THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTIANS. WITHOUT THE MINISTRY OF JESUS THERE WOULD BE NO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. WITHOUT CHRISTIAN MISSIONS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CHRISTIAN OCCIDENT. ECKHARD SCHNABEL (EARLY CHRISTIAN MISSION) MISSION IN THE BIBLE WHY ARE WE HERE? WHY ARE WE BEING EKBALLOEDTO THE HARVEST? WHAT GROUNDS OUR MISSION? WHAT IS MISSION? WHERE DID MISSION COME FROM? MISSION IN THE BIBLE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE GODS THOUGHT AND PLAN FOR THE WORLDS EVANGELIZATION ARE EVERYWHERE IN EVIDENCE. FROM COVER TO COVER THE BIBLE IS A MISSIONARY BOOKSCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY FOR WORLD-WIDE MISSIONS RESTS NOT MERELY UPON A GROUP OF PROOF TEXTS, BUT UPON THE ENTIRE DESIGN AND SPIRIT OF THE BIBLE AS IT REVEALS GOD IN HIS RELATION TO MEN AND NATIONS, AND AS IT TRACES THE UNFOLDING OF HIS PURPOSES DOWN THROUGH THE AGES. ROBERT HALL GLOVER (THE BIBLE BASIS FOR MISSION) MISSION IN THE BIBLE THE BIBLE DOESNT JUST CONTAIN A NUMBER OF TEXTS THAT HAPPEN TO PROVIDE A RATIONALE FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR, BUT THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ITSELF A MISSIONAL PHENOMENON. THE WRITINGS THAT NOW COMPRISE OUR BIBLE ARE THEMSELVES THE PRODUCT OF, AND WITNESS TO, THE ULTIMATE MISSION OF GODTHE BIBLE IS THE DRAMA OF THIS GOD OF PURPOSE ENGAGED IN THE MISSION OF ACHIEVING THAT PURPOSE CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT MISSION IN THE BIBLE A (HERMENEUTICAL) METHOD WHICH ROBBED ME OF THE MISSIONARY CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE, WOULD ROB ME OF CHRISTIANITY ITSELF. IF CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE RELIGIOUS TRUTH WHICH IS MEANT FOR ALL MEN, AND WHICH ALL MEN NEED, A TRUTH THEREFORE WHICH CARRIES IN ITSELF THE DUTY OF PROPAGATING IT, I DO NOT WANT CHRISTIANITY AT ALL. ROBERT HORTON (THE BIBLE, A MISSIONARY BOOK) MISSION IN THE BIBLE IT IS HARD TO CONCEIVE HOW THE BIBLE IS TO ACCOMPLISH ITS MISSIONARY WORK IN THE WORLD UNTIL THE CHURCH AND THE MISSIONARY ARE ABLE TO BRING INTO CLEAR RELIEF ITS INTRINSIC MISSIONARY PURPOSE. ROBERT HORTON (THE BIBLE, A MISSIONARY BOOK) MISSION IN THE BIBLE IF (MATTHEW 28:18-20) WERE NOT THERE WE SHOULD STILL KNOW FROM THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT THE GOSPEL WAS BOUND TO BE CARRIED TO EVERY NATION AND TO EVERY HUMAN SOUL, THAT THE BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF JESUS WAS TO INVOLVE THE TEACHING OF ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND THAT HIS INVISIBLE HELP AND IRRESISTIBLE POWER WERE GUARANTEED TO HIS FOLLOWERS AND TO HIS WITNESSES EVERY DAY UNTIL THE WORK SHOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED. ROBERT HORTON THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE BIBLE IS INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE GOD WHO REFUSED HIS REBELLIOUS CREATION, WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP, WHO WAS AND IS DETERMINED TO REDEEM AND RESTORE FALLEN CREATION TO HIS ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ITTHE VERY EXISTENCE OF SUCH A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS TESTIFIES TO A GOD WHO BREAKS THROUGH TO HUMAN BEINGS, WHO DISCLOSED HIMSELF TO THEM, WHO WILL NOT LEAVE THEM UNILLUMINATED IN THE DARKNESS WHO TAKES THE INITIATIVE IN RE- ESTABLISHING BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS WITH US. CHARLES TABER THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE EXERCISE: HOW WOULD YOU JUSTIFY YOUR MISSIONARY LIFE AND EFFORT FROM THE BIBLE? THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE READ LUKE 24:44-48 MAKE 5 OBSERVATIONS WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY ABOUT HIMSELF AND THE SCRIPTURES? WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE SCRIPTURES? WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT THE WAY CHRIST READ THE SCRIPTURES? WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT THE WAY WE SHOULD READ THE SCRIPTURES? THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE THE WHOLE BIBLE IS A MISSIONAL PHENOMENON THE BIBLE IS A PRODUCT OF, AND WITNESS TO, THE ULTIMATE MISSION OF GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST THE BIBLE IS THE STORY OF GODS MISSION TO REDEEM FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE THROUGH THE PERSON AND WORK OF JESUS CHRIST A MISSIONAL HERMENEUTIC SETS OUT TO TRACE AND EXPLORE THE CHRISTOCENTRIC MISSION OF GOD IN THE PROGRESSIVE SELF-REVELATION OF GOD IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES, FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION, PROGRESSIVELY UNFOLD A FOCUS AND FULFILLMENT BOTH IN THE LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND EXALTATION OF JESUS AND IN THE MISSION TO ALL NATIONS, WHICH FLOWS OUT OF THE CHRIST EVENT. Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE TO SAY THAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT CHRIST MEANS THAT CHRIST IS THE CENTRAL HERMENEUTICAL KEY BY WHICH WE INTERPRET ALL OF THE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. TO SAY THAT THERE IS A MISSIONAL BASIS TO THE BIBLE IS TO SAY THAT MISSION IS CLOSELY RELATED TO THE PURPOSE OF THE BIBLE AS THE UNFOLDING REVELATION OF THE STORY OF JESUS AND THE REDEMPTION FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE. A MISSIONAL HERMENEUTIC OF THE BIBLE BEGINS WITH THE BIBLES VERY EXISTENCE. A MISSIONAL HERMENEUTIC FLOWS OUT OF THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ENTIRE BIBLE PROGRESSIVELY AND ORGANICALLY REVEALS TO US THE STORY OF GODS MISSION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE TO THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH LOST MANKIND FOR THE SAKE OF THE UNREACHED ELECT. Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE THE NEW TESTAMENT IS INHERENTLY MISSIONARY BECAUSE THE EARLY CHURCH WAS INHERENTLY MISSIONARY. MORE THAN HALF THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN BY AUTHORS ENGAGED IN THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE OF THE EARLY CHURCH. THERE ARE TWO FACETS TO MISSIONAL READING OF THE UNFOLDING STORY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE REDEMPTION OF HIS PEOPLE: LEADING UP TO CHRIST (MESSIANIC) LEADING ON FROM CHRIST (MISSIONAL) Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN DURING THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WITH MISSION AS THE CONTEXT OF THE WRITING: PAULS WRITINGS STEMMED FROM HIS MISSIONARY EFFORTS ATTACKS ON THE GOSPEL INCLUSION OF THE GENTILES THE GOSPELS WERE WRITTEN TO EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GOOD NEWS OF THE PERSON AND WORK OF JESUS CHRIST MESSAGE CENTERED ON THE LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS LUKES ENDS HIS GOSPEL AND BEGINS THE BOOK OF ACTS WITH THE MISSIONARY MANDATE, MAKING MISSION THE CONTEXT FOR HIS STORYLINE Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE THREE REALITIES IN THE TEXT AUTHORIZE OUR ACTION IN MISSION: GOD, IN THE PERSON AND WORK OF JESUS STORY, JESUS IS THE CLIMAX WHERE ARE WE? WHO ARE WE? WHATS GONE WRONG? WHAT IS THE SALVATION? WHO IS HE? WHAT DID HE DO? WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR US AND TO US? Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology THE MISSIONAL BASIS OF THE BIBLE PEOPLE, UNITED TO CHRIST ISRAEL AN ANTICIPATED FUTURE EXISTS FOR THE SAKE OF THE NATIONS CHURCH AN ALREADY REALITY CITIZENS OF HEAVEN MEMBERS OF GODS HOUSEHOLD THE PLACE OF GODS DWELLING AN ANTICIPATED NOT YET Christopher Wright Mission as a Matrix for Hermeneutics and Biblical Theology MISSION IN THE BIBLE THE BIBLE RECORDS AT LEAST 239 OCCASIONS WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD PATRIARCHS, ISRAELITES, NEW TESTAMENT FOLLOWERS OF JESUSCOME IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OR LEADERS GIVE LESSONS REGARDING SUCH CONTACTS. TERRY MUCK & FRANCES ADENEY (CHRISTIANITY ENCOUNTERING WORLD RELIGIONS) THE REASON FOR MISSION MISSION IS LINKED TO THE FALL MAN SINNED MAN IS IN NEED OF REDEMPTION JESUS INCARNATION JESUS LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION THE GOOD NEWS OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN JESUS MUST BE MADE KNOWN THE SAVING MISSION OF JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION FOR CHRISTIAN MISSION THE GOSPEL IS THE SAVING MESSAGE OF THE MANDATORY MISSION BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND MISSION THE STUDY OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE MUST BE BIBLICAL-THEOLOGICAL INDUCTIVE ORGANIC PROGRESSION OF UNFOLDING REVELATION UNITY OF STORY AND LOGIC IN THE SCRIPTURES THE STUDY OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE MUST BE SALVATION-HISTORICAL FOLLOWS THE STORYLINE OF THE BIBLE FOLLOWS THE PROMISE AND FULFILLMENT RHYTHM OF THE STORYLINE CONTINUITY DISCONTINUITY WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS THAT PART OF EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY WHICH DEALS WITH THE REVELATION OF GOD IN ITS HISTORIC CONTINUITY, UNDERTAKING TO SHOW HOW THE TRUTH HAS BEEN GRADUALLY SET FORTH IN GREATER FULLNESS AND CLEARNESS. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS THE EXHIBITION OF THE ORGANIC PROGRESS OF SUPERNATURAL REVELATION IN ITS HISTORIC CONTINUITY AND MULTIFORMITY. GEERHARDUS VOS WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? BIBLICAL THEOLOGY FOCUSES ON THE STORYLINE OF SCRIPTURETHE UNFOLDING OF GODS PLAN IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY. TOM SCHREINER BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF HOW EVERY TEXT IN THE BIBLE RELATES TO EVERY OTHER TEXT IN THE BIBLE, THE STUDY OF THE MATRIX OF DIVINE REVELATION IN THE BIBLE AS A WHOLE. GRAEME GOLDSWORTHY BECAUSE THE GOSPEL ESTABLISHES JESUS CHRIST AT THE CENTER OF THE BIBLICAL MESSAGE, BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF HOW EVERY TEXT IN THE BIBLE RELATES TO JESUS AND HIS GOSPEL. GRAEME GOLDSWORTHY BIBLICAL THEOLOGYS APPROACH IS CANONICAL, GENETIC-PROGRESSIVE (OR ORGANICALLY DEVELOPMENTAL, AS A FLOWER DEVELOPS FROM A SEED AND BUD), EXEGETICAL, AND INTERTEXTUAL. GREG BEALE WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS INTERTEXTUAL, AN INDUCTIVE AND EXEGETICAL DISCIPLINE WORKING FROM BIBLICAL TEXTS, IN ALL OF THEIR LITERARY DIVERSITY, TO THE ENTIRE CANON. WELLUMAND GENTRY BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS INTRATEXTUAL, LETTING THE BIBLICAL TEXT SET ITS OWN AGENDA, READING SCRIPTURE ON ITS OWN TERMS, INTERPRETING IN LIGHT OF ITS OWN CATEGORIES AND PRESENTATION. WELLUMAND GENTRY BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IS INTERESTED NOT MERELY IN WORDS AND WORD STUDIES BUT ALSO IN CONCEPTS AND THEMES AS IT TRACES OUT THE BIBLES OWN STORY LINE, ON THE BIBLES OWN TERMS, AS THE PLOT LINE REACHES ITS CULMINATION IN CHRIST. WELLUMAND GENTRY WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? PRESUPPOSITIONS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY DEALS WITH THE DATUM OF REVELATION. THE BEGINNING, FIRST, AND PRIMARY DATA POINT FOR REVELATION IS JESUS CHRIST AND JOHN 1:1. REVELATION IS A GIVEN, INHERENT TO THE CREATORS CREATION OF THE CREATURE. SPECIAL REVELATION IS A NECESSITY DUE TO THE BREAK IN COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNION OF THE FALL. MAN IS PASSIVE BEFORE REVELATION. THE BIBLE IS REVELATION GIVEN FROM WITHOUT MAN, FROM OUTSIDE OF THE CREATURE. EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY, AND ITS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY, EMPHASIZES TO THE RECIPIENT THAT WE ARE THE PASSIVE RECEPTORS OF REVELATION: GOD SPEAKS, WE LISTEN. GOD IS ACTIVE AND DISTRIBUTIVE; WE ARE PASSIVE AND RECEPTIVE. WHAT IS BIBLICAL THEOLOGY? BIBLICAL THEOLOGY CONCENTRATES ON THE DATUM OF REVELATION AS IT OCCURS HISTORICALLY (IN TIME AND SPACE). BIBLICAL THEOLOGY CONCENTRATES ON THE DATUM OF REVELATION AS IT OCCURS PROGRESSIVELY. BECAUSE REVELATION UNFOLDS HISTORICALLY AND PROGRESSIVELY , IT IS INTERRELATED AND INTERCONNECTED. GODS SELF-REVELATION HAPPENS IN A HISTORICAL CONTINUUM AND THEREFORE IT HAS A PROGRESSIVE HISTORIC OR ORGANIC INTERCONNECTEDNESS ABOUT IT. THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGIAN EMPHASIZES REVELATION AS PREEMINENTLY SUPERNATURAL. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND MISSION SCRIPTURE IS UNDERSTOOD IN THE UNITY OF PURPOSE: TRACING THE UNFOLDING STORY OF JESUS AND HIS PLAN OF REDEMPTION OF A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ASSUMES GOD ACTS COHERENTLY AND PURPOSEFULLY IN HISTORY. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY EMPLOYS TWO MAIN PILLARS WITH THE HELP OF A THIRD: LITERATURE THE BIBLE IS A COLLECTION OF 66 LITERARY PIECES THAT CONVEY HISTORY, MUCH OF IT IN NARRATIVE FORM THE 66 PIECES INTERPRET HISTORY THE 66 PIECES ARE A UNIFIED WHOLE THEOLOGY SCRIPTURE IS A DIVINELY INSPIRED BOOK AUTHORITATIVE TEACHING FRAMEWORK FOR CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AND PRACTICES THE TEACHINGS (THEOLOGICAL DATA POINTS] ARE INTERCONNECTED THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND MISSION BIBLICAL THEOLOGY EMPLOYS TWO MAIN PILLARS WITH THE HELP OF A THIRD (COND): HISTORY CHRISTIANITY IS HISTORICAL, BEGINNING WITH THE RESURRECTION HISTORICAL RESEARCH CAN BE HELPFUL TO BIBLICAL THEOLOGY GENERAL REVELATION BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION DEVELOPS THE THEME OF MISSION BY TRACING THE PROCLAMATION OF GODS NAME AND OF HIS SAVING PURPOSES IN CHRIST TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD THROUGH CONNECTING WORDS THROUGH CONNECTING THEMES BY GIVING ATTENTION TO OVERARCHING CONCEPTS WHAT IS MISSION? WRITE A ONE OR TWO SENTENCE SUMMARY OF YOUR DEFINITION OF MISSION. WHAT IS MISSION? CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS OF CHRISTIAN MISSION: THE WORD MISSION IS PROPERLY A COMPREHENSIVE WORD, EMBRACING EVERYTHING WHICH GOD SENDS HIS PEOPLE INTO THE WORLD TO DO. (STOTT 1975, 35) MISSION IS THE PEOPLE OF GOD GIVING WITNESS TO THE REALITY OF GOD THROUGH THE CHURCH AS THE SIGN, FORETASTE, AND PRESENCE OF THE KINGDOM. (ROXBURGH 2000, 179) MISSION IS THE SELF-SENDING CREATIVE AND REDEMPTIVE ACTION OF THE TRIUNE GOD FOR THE [SIC] MANKIND AND THE WORLD. ITS ULTIMATE GOAL IS THE COMPLETION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND SALVATION OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD. (YOSHIMOTO 2005) MISSION IS THE DIVINE ACTIVITY OF SENDING INTERMEDIARIES WHETHER SUPERNATURAL OR HUMAN TO SPEAK OR DO GODS WILL SO THAT GODS PURPOSES FOR JUDGMENT OR REDEMPTION ARE FURTHERED. (LARKIN 1996, 534) WHAT IS MISSION? MISSION ARISES FROM THE HEART OF GOD HIMSELF, AND IS COMMUNICATED FROM HIS HEART TO OURS. MISSION IS THE GLOBAL OUTREACH OF THE GLOBAL PEOPLE OF A GLOBAL GOD. JOHN STOTT WORLD EVANGELIZATION REQUIRES THE WHOLE CHURCH TO TAKE THE WHOLE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD. LAUSANNE COVENANT, 1974 THE SENDING ACTIVITY OF GOD WITH THE PURPOSE OF RECONCILING TO HIMSELF AND BRINGING INTO HIS KINGDOM FALLEN MEN AND WOMEN FROM EVERY PEOPLE, NATION, AND TONGUE. OTT, STRAUSS, TENANT WHAT IS MISSION? MISSION: THE ACTIVITY OF A COMMUNITY OF FAITH THAT DISTINGUISHES ITSELF FROM ITS ENVIRONMENT IN TERMS OF BOTH RELIGIOUS BELIEF (THEOLOGY) AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (ETHICS), THAT IS CONVINCED OF THE TRUTH CLAIMS OF ITS FAITH, AND THAT ACTIVELY WORKS TO WIN OTHER PEOPLE TO THE CONTENT OF FAITH AND TO THE WAY OF LIFE OF WHOSE TRUTH AND NECESSITY THE MEMBERS OF THAT COMMUNITY ARE CONVINCED. ECKHARD SCHNABEL THIS DEFINITION OF MISSION INVOLVES A THREEFOLD REALITY: PEOPLE COMMUNICATE TO PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FAITHS A NEW INTERPRETATION OF REALITYA DIFFERENT, NEW VIEW OF GOD, HUMANKIND AND SALVATION PEOPLE COMMUNICATE A NEW WAY OF LIFE THAT REPLACES, AT LEAST PARTIALLY, THE FORMER WAY OF LIFE PEOPLE INTEGRATE THOSE WHOM THEY WIN OVER TO THEIR FAITH AND WAY OF LIFE INTO THEIR COMMUNITY. WHAT IS MISSION? MISSION REFERS TO THE TOTAL BIBLICAL ASSIGNMENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. MISSION IS THE CHURCH AS SENT (A PILGRIM, STRANGER, WITNESS, PROPHET, SERVANT, AS SALT, AS LIGHT, ETC.) IN THIS WORLD. MISSIONS IS A SPECIALIZED TERM MEANING THE SENDING FORTH OF AUTHORIZED PERSONS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH AND HER IMMEDIATE GOSPEL INFLUENCE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IN GOSPEL-DESTITUTE AREAS, TO WIN CONVERTS FROM OTHER FAITHS OR NON-FAITHS TO JESUS CHRIST, AND TO ESTABLISH FUNCTIONING, MULTIPLYING LOCAL CONGREGATIONS WHO WILL BEAR THE FRUIT OF CHRISTIANITY IN THAT COMMUNITY AND TO THAT COUNTRY. GEORGE PETERS, (A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSIONS) WHAT IS MISSION? THE WORD MISSION DERIVES FROM THE LATIN WORD MITTO, TO SEND, AND MISSIO, SENDING. THE WORD MISSION WAS FIRST USED IN 1544 BY THE JESUITS IGNATIUS LOYOLA AND JACOB LOYNER TO DESCRIBE THE SPREAD OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. IN 1588 LOYOLA WROTE, BY MISSION I MEAN JOURNEYS AND UNDERTAKINGS CARRIED ON FROM TOWN TO TOWN FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORD OF GOD. THE TERM MISSION ENTERED COMMON USAGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. PREVIOUSLY ONE SPOKE MORE OF THE APOSTOLATE, OR APOSTOLIC OFFICE. (OTT, STRAUSS, AND TENANT) WHAT IS MISSION? MISSION MEANS SENDING, THE IDEA EXPRESSED BY THE VERBS PEMPEIN AND APOSTELLEIN, WHICH TOGETHER OCCUR 206 TIMESIN THE NEW TESTAMENT. THE MISSIONARY, THAT IS, THE ONE SENT, IS AN APOSTOLOS (79 TIMES), AND THE APOSTLES TASK OR MISSION IS APOSTOL (FOUR TIMES) (CF. LEGRAND 1990:XIV). THE VALIDITY OF MISSION SHOULD NOT BE DEDUCED FROM ISOLATED SAYINGS BUT FROM THE THRUST OF THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF SCRIPTURE. IN OTHER WORDS, EITHER MISSIONPROPERLY UNDERSTOODLIES AT THE HEART OF THE BIBLICAL MESSAGE OR IT IS SO PERIPHERAL TO THAT MESSAGE THAT WE NEED NOT BE OVERLY CONCERNED WITH IT. DAVID BOSCH, REFLECTIONS ON BIBLICAL MODELS OF MISSION WHAT IS MISSION? SINCE THE 1960S THE TERM MISSION (SINGULAR) HAS COME TO BE USED MORE BROADLY TO DESCRIBE ALL OF GODS SENDING ACTIVITY: GODS MISSION IN THE WORLD. MISSION HAS COME TO DESCRIBE NOT MERELY THE TASKS OF MISSIONARIES, BUT THE VERY SENDING MANDATE OF THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE. THE TERM MISSIONS (PLURAL) HAS COME TO BE MORE NARROWLY USED TO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS SPECIFIC EFFORTS OF THE CHURCH TO CARRY OUT THE TASK OF MISSION IN THE WORLD, USUALLY RELATED TO THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL AND THE EXPANSION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHAT IS MISSION? ALL THAT GOD IS DOING IN HIS GREAT PURPOSE FOR THE WHOLE OF CREATION AND ALL THAT HE CALLS US TO DO IN COOPERATION WITH THAT PURPOSE. CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT OUR MISSION MEANS OUR COMMITTED PARTICIPATION AS GODS PEOPLE, AT GODS INVITATION AND COMMAND, IN GODS OWN MISSION WITHIN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FOR THE REDEMPTION OF GODS CREATION. CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT MISSION IS WHAT GOD IS DOING FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD: IT IS GODS LONG TERM PURPOSE TO RENEW THE CREATION. MICHAEL GOHEEN MISSION IS NOT PRIMARILY ABOUT GOING. NOR IS MISSION PRIMARILY ABOUT DOING ANYTHING. MISSION IS ABOUT BEING. IT IS ABOUT BEING A DISTINCTIVE KIND OF PEOPLE, A COUNTERCULTURALCOMMUNITY AMONG THE NATIONS. PESKETT AND RAMACHANDRA MISSIONS: THE MULTITUDE OF ACTIVITIES THAT GODS PEOPLE CAN ENGAGE IN, BY MEANS OF WHICH THEY PARTICIPATE IN GODS MISSION. CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT WHAT IS MISSION? SUMMARY: MISSION GODS ACTIVITY IN CHRIST MISSION THE CHURCHS ASSIGNMENT MISSIONS THE CHURCHS ACTIVITY BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND MISSION MISSION IS THE ACTIVITY OF GOD TOWARD MAN IN CHRIST 1) AS IT UNFOLDS IN THE REVELATION OF REDEMPTION, AND 2) AS REDEMPTION UNFOLDING IN REVELATION. THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION IS THE ORGANIC UNFOLDING IN PROGRESSIVE DIVINE REVELATION OF THE STORY OF JESUS AND HIS MISSIONAL REDEMPTION FOR HIMSELF A PEOPLE. MISSION IN GENESIS READ GENESIS 1:1-2:3 WRITE DOWN 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS OR REPETITIONS? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE EMPHASIS? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE PURPOSE OF THE PASSAGE? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF VS. 26-28 TO THE REST OF THE PASSAGE? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF 2:3 TO THE REST OF THE PASSAGE (NO PUN INTENDED) :-) READ GENESIS 2:8 AND 2:15. HOW DOES THIS DEVELOP THE THEME OR EMPHASIS? READ GENESIS 3:6-7 AND 3:15. HOW DOES THIS DEVELOP THE STORYLINE? READ GENESIS 3:9. HOW WOULD MOSES ORIGINAL AUDIENCE HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION? WHAT DOES THE QUESTION REPRESENT? WHAT ARE THE HINTS OF MISSION IN GENESIS 1-3? MISSION IN GENESIS READ MATTHEW 28:18-20, ACTS 3:25-26,4:4, AND COLOSSIANS 1:6,10,15 IN LIGHT OF GENESIS 1:26-28. WHAT THEME(S) FROM GENESIS ARE PRESENT IN MATTHEW, ACTS, AND COLOSSIANS? HOW ARE THE THEMES DIFFERENT IN THE NT DIFFERENT FROM GENESIS? HOW DOES THIS REPRESENT THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE? MISSION IN GENESIS READ PSALM 132:7-8,13-14 AND REVELATION 21:22 IN LIGHT OF GENESIS 2:1- 3. WHAT THEME(S) FROM GENESIS IS PRESENT IN THE PSALM AND REVELATION 21? HOW IS IT DIFFERENT IN THE NT THAN IN THE OT? HOW DOES THIS REPRESENT THE PROGRESS AND TRAJECTORY OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE? MISSION IN GENESIS READ GENESIS 9:4, 11:1-8. WRITE DOWN 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE THEME IN CHAP. 11? WHAT THEMES ARE COMMON TO GENESIS 1-2? WHAT IS DIFFERENT? HOW IS THE EARTH FILLED? HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM THE CREATION MANDATE IN GENESIS 1:26-28? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MISSION? MISSION IN GENESIS READ GENESIS 12:1-3 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE REPETITIONS AND PARALLELS? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE EMPHASIS OR THEME? READ GENESIS 15:1-6 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE REPETITIONS AND PARALLELS? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE EMPHASIS OR THEME? READ GENESIS 17:1-8 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE REPETITIONS AND PARALLELS? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE EMPHASIS OR THEME? MISSION IN GENESIS WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENESIS 12:1-3, 15:1-6, 17:1-8 AND GENESIS 1:26-28? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE PASSAGES AND GENESIS 3:15? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MISSION AT THIS STAGE OF REDEMPTIVE- HISTORY? MISSION IN GENESIS READ GENESIS 49:10, PSALM 22:27, MATTHEW28:18-20, AND REVELATION 21:24 IN LIGHT OF GENESIS 12:1-3. MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF GENESIS 12:1-3 THROUGH THESE OTHER TEXTS HOW IS THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE REPRESENTED IN THE LATER PASSAGES? MISSION IN GENESIS READ ACTS (1:6-8 AND 28:30-31) (2:47, 6:7, 9:31, 12:24, 16:5, 19:20) IN LIGHT OF GENESIS 12:1-3. MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF MISSION FROM GENESIS 12:1-3 TO THE MISSION/SUMMARY STATEMENT TEXTS IN ACTS. HOW DOES GENESIS 1:26-28 AND GENESIS 12:1-3 INFORM THE STORYLINE OF ACTS? PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT PROGRESSIVE REVELATION NT INTERPRETS THE OT...AND SO CAN WE PROMISE/FULFILLMENT ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD FIND THEIR "YES" IN JESUS NO MISTAKES/ACCIDENTS IN SCRIPTURE PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT THE OLD TESTAMENT, INCLUDING ITS TYPES, ISRAELS HISTORY, AND REVELATION, BETRAYS AN ORGANIC PROGRESS OF HISTORY MOVING TOWARD ITS END IN CHRIST. OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY IS GODS REVELATION OF THE HISTORY OF SALVATION PROCEEDING TOWARD ITS FULL REALIZATION IN JESUS CHRIST. EACH ERAOF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS BOTH INTERCONNECTED WITH AND BUILDS ON THE ERA PRECEDING IT, WITH ALL OF THE ERAS AND THEIR METANARRATIVE FINDING THEIR CULMINATION IN THE CHRIST ERA, THE END OF DAYS, THE AGE TO COME. THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, ITS WORDS, AND ITS DEEDS ARE THOROUGHLY AND INTENTIONALLY ESCHATOLOGICAL. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT NEW COVENANT THEOLOGY INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE AFTER THE MANNER OF CHRIST'S AND THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS' USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. JESUS AND THE INSPIRED NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS, BY THEIR USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, HAVE LEFT US A PATTERN BY WHICH TO INTERPRET NOT ONLY THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES, BUT ITS HISTORY AND POETRY. THE WAY THAT JESUS, THE APOSTLES, AND THE PROPHETS USED THE OLD TESTAMENT IS NORMATIVE FOR THIS AGE. ALL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES ARE INHERENTLY PROPHETIC IN THAT THE ENTIRE OLD TESTAMENT, THE LAW, THE PSALMS, AND THE PROPHETS, POINT FORWARD TO AND ANTICIPATE THE WORD INCARNATE, JESUS CHRIST (HEBREWS 1:1-2). BECAUSE THE SCRIPTURES ARE PROPHETIC IN ANTICIPATING JESUS, ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES, REGARDLESS OF GENRE, ARE INHERENTLY THEOLOGICAL AND DIDACTIC. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT THE RHYTHM OF THE REDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND REVELATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES OCCURS IN THE FORM OF PROMISE AND FULFILLMENT. JUST AS THE WORD ACCOMPANIES AND INTERPRETS GODS SALVIFIC EVENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, SO TOO PROMISE IS CONSISTENTLY AND FAITHFULLY FOLLOWED BY FULFILLMENT. THIS DIVINELY ORCHESTRATED PATTERN THAT THREADS TOGETHER THE EVENTS AND REVELATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BECOMES, FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT AUTHORS, THE PATTERN BY WHICH HE HAS INTERPRETED THE PERSON AND WORK AND WORD OF JESUS CHRIST, THE PROMISED MESSIAH THE YES AND AMEN -- WHO FULFILLS, OR FILLS UP, THE MEANING OF ALL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROMISES. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT THE NEW TESTAMENT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SHOWS AND/OR EXPLAINS FULFILLMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TYPES, SHADOWS, AND PROMISES IN CHRIST. TYPOLOGY IS INHERENT TO UNDERSTANDING NT USE OF THE OT. OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES ARE INTERPRETED BY THE NT AUTHORS (AND JESUS) IN LIGHT OF JESUS, HIS LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND EXALTATION. THE NEW TESTAMENT USES THE OLD TESTAMENT AS INTERPRETIVE SUPPORT FOR ITS VARIOUS CONCLUSIONS. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT NEW TESTAMENT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS CONTEXTUAL, MAKING IT IMPORTANT TO READ AND EVEN UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE CONTEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGE TO GET THE FULL IMPACT OF ITS USE. THE OLD TESTAMENT QUOTE PROVIDES BACKDROP FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT PASSAGE AND MOVES ALONG THE THESIS/THEME OF THE NT AUTHORS BOOK, EVEN AS THE NEW TESTAMENT PASSAGE INTERPRETS THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGE FROM WHICH THE QUOTE IS TAKEN. WHILE THE WHOLE CANON IS THE SCRIPTURES FOR THE NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY, THE NEW TESTAMENT PROVIDES DEFINITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT QUOTATIONS AND THE QUOTATIONS CONTEXT. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT THE NEW TESTAMENTS USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROVIDES AN INTERPRETIVE PATTERN TO FOLLOW IN UNDERSTANDING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN LIGHT OF CHRISTS LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND EXALTATION (THE CHRIST EVENT). USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT GROUNDS JESUS STORY IN THE STORY OF OLD TESTAMENT ISRAEL. USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT PROVIDES CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS IN TELLING THE ONE GRAND STORY OF JESUS IN THE PROGRESS OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY. PRINCIPLES OF NT USE OF THE OT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN THE NT DRAWS SIMILARITIES BETWEEN JESUS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND HIGHLIGHTS DISSIMILARITIES BETWEEN JESUS AND THE OT. OFTEN THE OT QUOTATION IS A MEMORY-MARKER FOR THE LARGER OLD TESTAMENT UNIT. THE NT AUTHORS PORTRAY CHRIST AS BOTH THE GRAND INTERPRETER AND GRAND INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE PRIORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THERE IS A BIBLE PUBLISHED IN RECENT YEARS WHICH PRINTS THE NEW TESTAMENT FIRST, AND ADDS THE OLD AS A LONG APPENDIX WHICH IS VALUABLE FOR CASTING LIGHT UPON HE MAIN THEME OF THE BOOK. AND THIS IS THE ORDER WHICH MUST BE ADOPTED, NOT ONLY IN EVERY ATTEMPT TO APPRECIATE THE MISSIONARY CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE, BUT ALSO IN PRESENTING THE BIBLE TO THE WORLD AS A MISSIONARY BOOK. ROBERT HORTON THE PRIORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THE OLD COVENANT SCRIPTURES, WHAT WE CALL THE OLD TESTAMENT, ARE TO BE INTERPRETED IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR NEW COVENANT FULFILLMENT IN JESUS CHRIST. JESUS IS NOT ONLY THE INTERPRETIVE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE TERMINOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH AND DEFINED IN LIGHT OF CHRIST'S FULFILLMENT. THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES BEAR WITNESS TO THE CHRIST EVENT (CHRISTS LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION, EXALTATION) AND INTERPRET THE OLD TESTAMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF THAT CHRIST EVENT. THE PRIORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES PROVIDE A DEFINITIVE INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE END AND GOAL OF ALL THINGS IN CHRIST GIVES MEANING TO AND PROVIDES INTERPRETATION FOR ALL THAT PRECEDES IT. THE NEW TESTAMENT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PRESUMES THE HERMENEUTICAL AND ESCHATOLOGICAL PRIORITY OF THE CHRIST EVENT IN INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE NEW TESTAMENT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SHOWS THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT AUTHORS ARE INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN A WAY THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT EVENTS, PERSONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND SCRIPTURES HAVE FOUND THEIR FULFILLMENT AND FINAL GOAL IN THE PERSON AND WORK OF JESUS CHRIST. ISRAEL AND MISSION READ EXODUS 19:1-25 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE REPETITIONS? WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS? WHAT IS ISRAELS RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATIONS, VIA THIS PASSAGE? HOW DOES ISRAEL SERVE THE NATIONS, ACCORDING TO THESE VERSES? WHAT DOES MOSES WANT THE ORIGINAL AUDIENCE TO UNDERSTAND AS THE MAIN POINT? READ DEUTERONOMY 28:1-14 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE REPETITIONS? WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS? WHAT IS THE MAIN POINT? WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE? ISRAEL AND MISSION READ 1 PETER 2:1-10, REVELATION 1:5,5:8-10, 20:4-6; COMPARE WITH EXODUS 19:1-25 AND DEUTERONOMY 28:1-14. WHAT ARE THE COMMON THEMES BETWEEN THESE PASSAGES? WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PASSAGES? WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE? ISRAEL AND MISSION READ 2 SAMUEL 7:8-16,22-24 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS AND REPETITIONS WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS PASSAGE AND GENESIS 12:1-3? WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE? ISRAEL AND MISSION READ 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-7:1 AND HEBREWS 1:1-2:10 IN LIGHT OF 2 SAMUEL 7:8-16,22-24 HOW HAS 2 SAMUEL 7:8-16,22-24 BEEN FULFILLED? HOW DOES THE NT PORTRAY THE PROGRESSION OF MISSION FROM THE OT PASSAGE? ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS PROCLAMATION (LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, SALVATION IN ISRAEL) AND ESCHATOLOGICAL INGATHERING INCORPORATION (FOREIGNER) ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS INCORPORATION (FOREIGNER) EXODUS 12:38,48, 22:21 JOSHUA 6:25 RUTH 4:13-22 2 SAMUEL 11:3, 15:19-23 PSALM 47 WRITE DOWN 3 OBSERVATIONS FROM EACH TEXT, NOTING WHAT THE TEXT IS SAYING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS HOW DO THESE TEXTS INFORM THE STORYLINE OF MISSION? HOW DO THESE FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSION IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY? ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS PROCLAMATION (LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, SALVATION IN ISRAEL) AND ESCHATOLOGICAL INGATHERING 1 KINGS 8:41-43 PSALM 48 PSALM 50:1-6 PSALM 110 WRITE DOWN 3 OBSERVATIONS FROM EACH TEXT, NOTING WHAT THE TEXT IS SAYING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS HOW DO THESE TEXTS INFORM THE STORYLINE OF MISSION? HOW DO THESE FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSION IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY? ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS PROCLAMATION (LIGHT TO THE NATIONS, SALVATION IN ISRAEL) AND ESCHATOLOGICAL INGATHERING ISAIAH 2:2 ISAIAH 9:1-7 ISAIAH 11:1-16 ISAIAH 42:1-9 ISAIAH 49:1-13 ISAIAH 60:2-5 WRITE DOWN 3 OBSERVATIONS FROM EACH TEXT, NOTING WHAT THE TEXT IS SAYING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS HOW DO THESE TEXTS INFORM THE STORYLINE OF MISSION? HOW DO THESE FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSION IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY? ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS READ MATTHEW4:12-17, LUKE 2:29-32, LUKE 24:44-47, ACTS 1:8, ROMANS 15:7-13 IN LIGHT OF THE ISAIAH PASSAGES MAKE 3 OBSERVATIONS FOR EACH PASSAGE WHAT IS BEING SAID IN THE NT ABOUT MISSION? HOW HAS THE STORYLINE OF MISSION PROGRESSED FROM THE OT TO THE NT? ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS READ EXODUS 12:38, RUTH 1:16-17, JOSHUA 2:8-13, 2 SAMUEL 11:3, 2 KINGS 5:11-19, JONAH 2:3-10, DANIEL 4:34-37 WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF EACH PASSAGE FOR THE ORIGINAL AUDIENCE? HOW DO THESE PASSAGES FIT INTO THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLES STORYLINE? ISRAEL AND MISSION FROM MICHAEL GOHEEN, A LIGHT TO THE NATIONS THE CHURCH ADAM THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS ONE VIEW OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICS: CREATION FALL REDEMPTION RESTORATION ANOTHER VIEW OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY AND HERMENEUTICS: CREATION FALL REDEMPTION CONSUMMATION THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS GEERHARDUS VOS: THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE END POSITED FOR THE UNIVERSE BEFORE AND APART FROM SIN. THE UNIVERSE, AS CREATED, WAS ONLY A BEGINNING, THE MEANING OF WHICH WAS NOT PERPETUATION BUT ATTAINMENT... ESCHATOLOGY AIMS AT CONSUMMATION RATHER THAN RESTORATION. THEREFORE, REDEMPTIVE ESCHATOLOGY MUST BE RESTORATIVE AND CONSUMMATIVE. IT DOES NOT AIM AT THE ORIGINAL STATE, BUT AT A TRANSCENDENTAL STATE OF MAN. IT MUST BE CURATIVE AND TONIC. EVERY ACT OF SALVATION MUST BE MEDICAL AND SUPERNATURALIZING WHEREBY MAN IS NOT MADE MERELY NORMAL, BUT IS PREPARED FOR THE SUPERNORMALTHE SUPERNATURALIZING ASPECT SUGGESTS THIS THOUGHT, FOR THE GOAL DEMANDS RADICAL CHANGE IN THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS PRESUPPOSITIONS OR ASSERTIONS CREATION WILL BE REDEEMED AND RESTORED CREATION IS AS IMPORTANT AS MAN IN THE STORY OF REDEMPTION, THUS MISSION AND MISSIONS MAN IS SIMPLY ONE COMPONENT OF CREATION; THEREFORE TO FOCUS ON CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS EXCLUSIVELY IS CONSIDERED SIMPLISTIC RESTORATION, RATHER THAN CONSUMMATION, IS THE PARADIGM THE ATONEMENT COVERS SQUIRRELS AND TREES THE WORLD (EXHAUSTIVELY AND COMPREHENSIVELY) MEANS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AT ALL TIMES IN ALL PLACES ALL THINGS (EXHAUSTIVELY AND COMPREHENSIVELY) MEANS ALL THINGS IN ALL TIMES AND ALL PLACES THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS READ ROMANS 8:18-29 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS AND REPETITIONS? WHAT IS THE CONTEXT PRECEDING THE PASSAGE? SUCCEEDING THE PASSAGE? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE GIST? HOW SHOULD 8:20-23 BE INTERPRETED IN LIGHT OF THE REST OF THE PASSAGE? READ GENESIS 3:17-20 MAKE 3 OBSERVATIONS WHAT IS THE CONTEXT? WHAT IS THE GIST OF THIS PIECE OF TEXT? HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE INFORM ROMANS 8:18-29? WHAT IS THE ROMANS 8 PASSAGE *REALLY* SAYING ABOUT REDEMPTION? HOW DOES THIS INFORM OUR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION? THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS READ REVELATION 21:1-8 WRITE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE REPETITIONS, PARALLELS, AND CONTRASTS? WHAT IS THE CENTRAL POINT OF THE TEXT? WHAT IS THE EMPHASIS? WHAT ARE THE REPETITIONS AND PARALLELS TELLING US ABOUT THE MAIN THEME OF THIS TEXT? HOW DOES REVELATION 21:9-27 INFORM THE FIRST 8 VERSES? WHAT ARE THE PARALLELS? HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THE ALL THINGS OF REVELATION 21:5 IN LIGHT OF THE REST OF THE PASSAGE? HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE FIT INTO THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION? THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS READ COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 WRITE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT ARE THE REPETITIONS, PARALLELS, AND CONTRASTS? WHAT TWO MAIN THINGS ARE BEING COMPARED/CONTRASTED? WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN POINT OF THIS TEXT? HOW DOES IT MOVE ALONG PAULS ARGUMENT (SEE IMMEDIATE PRECEDING AND SUCCEEDING CONTEXTS) HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THE EVERYTHING OF VS. 20 IN LIGHT OF THE REST OF THE PASSAGE? HOW DOES THIS PASSAGE FIT INTO THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION? THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS READ ACTS 1:6, 3:21 AND HEBREWS 9:10 HOW IS RESTORE BEING USED IN THESE PASSAGES? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF ACTS 2 AND PENTECOST TO THESE PASSAGES? READ JOEL 3:1, NAHUM2:2, AMOS 9:14, ZEPHANIAH 3:20 WHAT IS THE CONTEXT FOR USE OF THE WORD RESTORE IN THESE PASSAGES? HOW IS THIS FULFILLED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? WHAT OBSERVATIONS ARE TO BE MADE FROM ALL OF THESE PASSAGES REGARDING USE OF THE WORD RESTORE IN: SALVATION? MISSION AND MISSIONS? WHAT IS MISSING FROM ALL OF THESE PASSAGES REGARDING USE OF THE WORD RESTORE? TIDBIT: IN THE NT, RESTORE IS ONLY USED ONCE IN THE MANNER IT IS BEING USED TO DESCRIBE THE END OF ALL THINGS. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MISSIONS READ MATTHEW1:21, 4:12-17, 20:28, 26:28, MARK 1:38-39, LUKE 2:8-14,30- 32, JOHN 1:1-14, 3:16, 6:38-39, 10:10,11,14, 12:44-46, 18:36-37, GALATIANS 4:4, 1 TIMOTHY 1:15, REVELATION 5:9-10. WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES TELL US ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE INCARNATION? WHAT ARE THESE PASSAGES NOT TELLING US ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF THE INCARNATION? HOW DO THESE PASSAGES FIT INTO THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION, ESPECIALLY THE PROGRESS OF MISSION FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION? MISSION IN THE GOSPELS: LUKE READ LUKE 1:30-35,46-55, 2:8-14,25-35, 4:16-30,42-44, 10:1-16 MAKE 2 OBSERVATIONS FROM EACH OF THESE SEVEN PASSAGES DRAW 7 CONCLUSIONS ABOUT HOW LUKE IS PORTRAYING CHRIST AND HIS MINISTRY FROM THESE PASSAGES SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE MESSAGE AND MISSION ACCORDING TO LUKE WHAT DOES LUKE WANT THEOPHILUS TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE MISSION OF CHRIST FROM THESE PASSAGES? THE MISSION OF THE LOCAL CHURCH? MISSION IN THE GOSPELS: LUKE READ LUKE 24:44-47 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS NOTE REPETITIONS AND PARALLELS WHAT SEEM TO BE THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE LUKAN COMMISSION? SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE MESSAGE AND MISSION ACCORDING TO LUKE WHAT DOES LUKE WANT THEOPHILUS TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE MISSION OF CHRIST FROM THESE PASSAGES? THE MISSION OF THE LOCAL CHURCH? MISSION IN THE GOSPELS: LUKE LIKE ACTS 1:8, THE FORM OF THIS COMMISSION IN 24:44-48 IS FACT AND PROMISE (RATHER THAN MATTHEWS IMPERATIVE) AT THE CENTER OF SALVATION HISTORY AND DIVINE REVELATION IS THE PERSON OF JESUS THE MESSIAH, AND IN HIM THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES HAVE BEEN FULFILLED. CHRISTS MISSION WILL BE EFFECTED BY HIS DISCIPLES AS WITNESSES AFTER HE RETURNS TO THE FATHER. THE DISCIPLES ACTIVITY OF MISSION IS PROCLAMATION (KERYSSO), THE CONTENT OF WHICH IS: THE MESSIAH WOULD SUFFER THE MESSIAH WOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD THE THIRD DAY REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS THE EXPANSE OF THE PROCLAMATION WILL BE THE NATIONS, BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM THE PREACHING OF REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS, THE SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL, IS GROUNDED IN THE RESURRECTION EVENT THE MISSION WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THE COMMISSION CONTEXT AND TRAJECTORY IS THE WORSHIP OF JESUS THE ASCENSION THE TEMPLE MISSION IN JOHN CHRIST COMES INTO THE WORLD CHRIST, THE LAMB, COMES TO TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD CHRIST ACCOMPLISHES HIS WORK AND RETURNS TO HIS FATHER CHRIST IS THE SENT ONE, PERFECTLY OBEYING THE SENDER CHRIST FULFILLS THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE FATHER SENT HIM CHRIST IS THE SHEPHERD-TEACHER WHO CALLS HIS FOLLOWERS TO HELP GATHER HIS ESCHATOLOGICAL HARVEST MISSION IN JOHN READ JOHN 1:18 READ JOHN 1:29,36 AND 6:51, 10:11,15,17,18, 15:13, 3:16 READ JOHN 3:16-17, 6:57-58, 10:7-10, 17:2-3 READ JOHN 1:14, 2:11, 11:4, 12:28, 13:31-32, 14:13, 17:1,4-5 READ JOHN 11:15, 20:30-31 EACH OF THESE SETS OF PASSAGES CONTAIN PART OF CHRISTS MISSION AS JOHN WRITES IT. IDENTIFY THE THEME AND PLACE IN THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN THE BIBLE. MISSION IN JOHN READ JOHN 20:21-23 READ JOHN 4:38 READ JOHN 15:27 READ JOHN 13:34-35 READ JOHN 17:10,18,20 READ JOHN 20:29-31 HOW DO THESE PASSAGES FIT INTO JOHNS UNDERSTANDING OF MISSION? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE FOR MISSION? WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF THE MESSAGE OF MISSION? WHAT IS JOHNS ORIGINAL AUDIENCE SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT MISSION FROM HIS GOSPEL? MISSION IN JOHN READ JOHN 15:16-25 WHAT WERE THE DISCIPLES TO EXPECT AS A RESULT OF THEIR APPOINTMENT? HOW DOES THIS FIT INTO JOHNS UNDERSTANDING OF MISSION? HOW DOES THIS INFORM THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF MISSION? MISSION IN PAUL PAULS ROLE AS MISSIONARY IN THE NEW COVENANT: READ GALATIANS 1:6-2:10 MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS WHAT WAS PUALS ROLE? HOW DID PAUL UNDERSTAND HIMSELF IN LIGHT OF THE CHRIST EVENT AND REDEMPTIVE HISTORY? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION? THE EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE NEW COVENANT READ GALATIANS 3:6-9 (GENESIS 12:1-3),13-14, 4:21-27 (ISAIAH 54:1-3) MAKE 10 OBSERVATIONS HOW HAS THE OLD TESTAMENT BEEN FULFILLED? HOW DOES THIS MOTIVATE PAUL? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY? MISSION IN PAUL PAULS MINISTRY: READ ROMANS 15:14-21 (ISAIAH 52:13-15) READ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-17 1 CORINTHIANS 9:12-27 (EXODUS 32:12,25, NUMBERS 14:13-19, DEUTERONOMY 9:25-26, EZEKIEL 20:9-22) ROMANS 9:22-29 (HOSEA 2:14-23) MAKE 3 OBSERVATIONS FOR EACH PASSAGE. BUILD A PROFILE OF PAULS MINISTRY WHAT ARE THE ORIGINAL AUDIENCES SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND IN LIGHT OF PAULS MISSION? WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF MISSION? MISSION IN PAUL PAULS MISSIONARY EXPECTATION FOR THE CHURCH READ PHILIPPIANS 1:12-18 W/ ROMANS 10:8-15 READ PHILIPPIANS 1:27-30 READ PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16 EPHESIANS 6:10-20 (ISAIAH 52:3-10, NAHUM1:15-2:3) MAKE 3 OBSERVATIONS IN EACH PASSAGE WHAT ARE PAULS EXPECTATIONS FOR THE ORIGINAL AUDIENCES? WHAT IS THE CONTENT OF THE MESSAGE OF THE MISSION? WHAT DO THESE PASSAGES HAVE TO DO WITH THE PROGRESS OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY?
The History of Jesus of Nazara - Freely Investigated in Its Connection With The National Life of Israel, and Related in Detail Vol. 6 (1883) Keim, Theodor, 1825-1878