The Task Is for All Christians – Where They Are Deployed

Part 4 The Primary Mandate – Disciple Nations

• Session 4.17 The GREAT CO-Mission Overview

• Session 4.18 Christ Announces His Reign• Session 4.19 Reawakening the Cultural

Mandate in the Great Commission• Session 4.20 The Task Is for All Christians

– Where They Are Deployed• Session 4.21 The Primary Task – Make

Disciples of All Nations!

The Text

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28: 18-20

Outline

• Therefore! What is the word “therefore” there for?

• A call for professional missionaries? No!• As you go! The task is for all Christians• No dichotomy!• The Church – The local expression of the

Body of Christ• The Gates of the City – To all of every

nation

Therefore Go!

• Questions: – # 1 What is the word “therefore” there for?– # 2 Who is this not addressed to? Who is it

addressed to?

A Call for Professional Missionaries?

No!

Evangelical Gnosticism

Moral*Faith *Grace

*Missions *Ethics

Sacred* Theology* Evangelism* Discipleship* Devotions NaturalNatural

GOD

Physical* Works

* Reason*

Business

* Politics

Secular* Science* Economics* Mass

Media* The Arts‘Physical’ MinistriesPhysical’ Ministries

Social JusticeSocial JusticeWeekdaysWeekdays

Spiritual DisciplinesSpiritual Warfare

SundaysSundays

Spiritual

Living in Two WorldsProfession

Secular

“Part-time”Christian Service

•Accountant•Artist•Carpenter•Cook•Farmer•Homemaker•Nurse•Poet•Tree Trimmer

LessSpiritual

Sacred

“Full-time”Christian Service

•Church Planter•Evangelist•Missionary•Pastor

morespiritual

GOOVERSEAS!

morespiritual

Living in Two WorldsDeployment

STAY HOME

lessspiritual

STAY HOME

lessspiritual

GOOVERSEAS

morespiritual

Living in Two WorldsDeployment

WORK AMONGUNREACHED

PEOPLE GROUPS!

much morespiritual

The Old Paradigm Dualistic/Gnostic Bridge

The Call

• Carpenter• Mechanic• Teacher• Musician• Artist• Caterer• Nurse• Housewife

10% Religious10% Religious

CarpentCarpenterer

MechaniMechanicc

MusicianMusicianTeacherTeacher

ArtistArtist

HousewifHousewifee NurseNurse

Church Church PlanterPlanter

PreachePreacherr

TheologianTheologian

Church PlanterChurch Planter

PreacherPreacher

TheologianTheologian

90% Secular90% Secular

Gnostic Bridge

As You Go!

The task is for all Christians.

“Go” – Greek word - poreuomai

• Not a command

• Literally - “going” or “as you go”

• Questions:– Who goes?– Where are they going?

Coram Deobefore the face of God

Christ’s Sovereignty

“… there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’”

Abraham KuyperFree University's inaugural convocation, 1880

Living in ONE WorldCoram Deo: before the face of God

•Accountant•Artist•Carpenter•Church Planter•Cook•Entrepreneur•Evangelist•Farmer•Film Maker•Homemaker•Missionary•Nurse•Pastor•Philosopher•Poet•Tree Trimmer

VOCATION

Consecration

Un-Sanctified Sanctified

Deployment

Home Cross-cultural

The New ParadigmBiblical Worldview Bridge

The Call• Theologian• Church

Planter• Preacher• Carpenter• Mechanic• Teacher• Musician• Artist• Caterer• Nurse• Housewife

““KingdomizeKingdomize” all” allCarpentCarpent

erer

MechaniMechanicc

MusicianMusicianTeacherTeacher

NurseNurse

Church Church PlanterPlanter

PreachePreacherr

TheologianTheologian

ArtistArtist

HousewifHousewifee

CatererCaterer

Kingdom Bridge

From Every Nation to Every Nation

The Church

The Local Expression of the Body of Christ

The Church and the World

• Read John 17: 15-19

• Question: What is to be the relationship between the church and the world?

Disengaged In the Church and Out of the World

ConformedIndistinguishable from the World

Impacting the World In the World but not of the World

Gathered and Scattered

Gathered for worship & equipping

Scattered for service & discipling the nations

The Church and the World

“The church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of its non-members.”

William TempleArchbishop of Canterbury

1945

The Church and Society

“The Church is only the Church when it exists for others.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Flossenburg concentration camp

1945

The Gates of the City – To All of Every Nation

Salt and Light

• Read:– Set # 1: Matt. 5: 13; Mark 9: 50; Luke 14: 34-35

– Set # 2: Matt. 5: 14-16; Mark 4: 21; Luke 11: 35

• Christ uses everyday metaphors to describe how we are to relate to society.

• Questions:– What is the nature of salt and light?

– What do these scriptures reveal about how we are to relate to society?

Gates of the CitySocialSocial

CommunicationCommunication

Business Business & Economics& Economics

ArtsArts HealthHealth

Government & LawGovernment & Law

Science &Science &TechnologyTechnology

EducationEducationKingdomizersKingdomizers

The Circles of Influence

IndividualIndividual

“Kingdomizers”

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Goodness

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Beauty

GoodnessGoodness

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TruthTruth

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GoodnessGoodness

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ness

The task is for all Christians where they are deployed.