Module 2—PDF slides—Vocation of Messianic New-Covenant Community—Gentiles by Eternal Purpose Institute

the voca)on of the messianic  covenant community  gathering the covenant harvests  © john clements 2008‐2009 / www.eternalpurpose.org.uk

introduc)on

  God’s eternal purpose for creation…    a covenant community   •  •  •

revealing his essential nature—his glory  revealing his purposes for his creation  cooperating with him

  partnering with Messiah in gathering  “covenant harvests” of the earth

covenant harvests  A GREAT NATION, BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING   to every family on earth

harvest of  MESSIANIC   COMMUNITY

harvest of  GENTILE PEOPLES

a global   shaking

new heaven and earth

harvest of  JEWISH PEOPLE

“look around among the naLons and see!  and be astonished! Astounded!  for I am puOng into eﬀect a work in your days  that you would not believe if it were told you”  —Habakkuk 1:5

a harvest of gen)le peoples  a harvest of “all nations”  © john clements 2008‐2009 / www.eternalpurpose.org.uk

every ethnos

go and make people from all nations into disciples,  baptising them into the reality of the Father, the  Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey  everything I have commanded you  —  Matthew 28.19

nations = ethnos = ethnic people groups  •  •  •  •

different by ethnic origin  different by language  different by culture, religion, caste  different by political nationality

na)on, tribe, people, language

I looked and there before me was a huge crowd, too  large for anyone to count, from every nation,  tribe, people and language; they were standing  in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb…   —  Revelation 7.9

who?  •  •  •  •

ethné  phulé  laos  glossa

= race, ethnic people    = tribe, clan    = nation, people    = language

great commission

  after‐thought of Jesus?   no: God’s eternal, unchanging purpose    “bible explains mission”   no: “mission explains the bible”!    option for committed core of believers?   no: calling to entire Christian community

world mission movements

  early church : ~ 450 AD  •

Mediterranean to India

  Celtic church : 500‐800 AD  •

West, Central Europe

  Nestorian church : 480‐1250 AD  •

Asia

  Orthodox church : 800‐1100 AD  •

Eastern Europe, Russia

  Roman Catholic mission orders : 1209‐ AD  •

mainly north, western Europe; North Africa, China

marginalisa)on of mission

  mission movements exception, not rule    16th century Reformers denied importance   •  •  •  •

battling RC, rather than evangelising heathen  imminent return Christ  obligation fulXilled by apostles  “election” made mission unnecessary!

  mission marginalised theologically,  organisationally…    until 18th‐century protestant missions…

Moravian Brethren, 1727‐

  godly leadership  •

Count Zinzandorf

  community  •

persecuted protestant refugees

  prayer  •

24/7 prayer vigil lasting over 100 years!

  dedication to world mission  •  •  •

declared “every Christian a missionary”  1 missionary  to every 60 community members  ratio 1 : 5000 within Protestantism generally

Moravian missionaries

  worldwide network  •  •  •

Virgin Islands, North America, South America  Greenland, Lapland, Labrador  South Africa, Tanganyika (Tanzania)

  missionaries  •  •  •  •  •

unselXish dedication  evangelists, not theologians  artisans, tradespeople  selfsupporting   economic inXluence; led to spiritual inXluence

father of modern mission movement  William Carey, 1792    vision, leadership, prayer, dedication    1st global statistical survey:   •  •

populations   evangelistic progress

  formed Baptist Missionary Society    Serampore, India, 40 years  •  •  •

schools  bible translation; printing  college for missionaries, evangelists

William Carey

expect great things   from God    attempt great things   for God

ﬁve breaking waves  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.

mission to continental coastlands  mission to continental interiors  mission to geopolitical countries  missions to ethnolinguistic peoples   mission by nonWestern movements

ﬁrst wave, 1792 ‐ 1865  coastlands of unreached continents

discipling, church planting  •  •  •

denominational  •  •

interdenominational cooperation  London Missionary Society

extraordinary pioneers  •

islands, coastlands of Asia, Africa  extremely long journeys  slow, difXicult communications

William Carey

second wave, 1865 ‐ 1910  continental interiors of Africa, Asia

preaching to every person   •  •  •

interdenominational organisations  •  •  •  •  •

geographical penetration of inland regions  AIM, SIM, Heart of Africa Mission (WEC)  major threat of death by tropical disease  China Inland Mission, Hudson Taylor  faith  Xield autonomy  “threeself” approach  “go native” approach

second wave, 1865 ‐ 1910  continental interiors of Africa, Asia

world evangelisation before 20th century  •  •

“Student Volunteer Movement”   •  •  •  •

much excitement pre1900  afterwards momentum slowed by  discouragement of nonachievement

100’s missionaries  huge educational impact  nontheological personnel  virtually halted by savage Xirst world war

third wave, 1910 ‐ 1966  geopolitical nations, countries

almost every one entered or targeted  •  •  •

moderate non‐Western church growth  •  •  •

slow, steady missionary advance  supported by Evangelical movement  theological, social, economic, political hostility

church planting   training indigenous leaders  western domination stiXled native Christianity

fourth wave, 1966‐  ethnic people groups

ethnically‐de`ined people groups  •  •  •

zones of regional darkness  •  •

measured, analysed, targeted  reached, unreached, progress  change in missiological strategy

“10/40 Window”  —  theoretical ‘window,’10o and 40o N  Silk Route  —  traditional router for silk traders

strategic terminology  “people group”   largest group within which Gospel can  spread as a church‐planting movement or  people movement to Christ…     without    encountering signi`icant barriers of  understanding or acceptance

strategic terminology  “unreached / least reached”

people groups without a viable indigenous  church suf`iciently developed to be  capable of evangelizing its own people  without cross‐cultural assistance   at least 50% of population have little or no  access to the Gospel, either indigenous or  cross‐cultural  statistically < 2% evangelicals and  < 5% nominal Christian adherents

strategic terminology

“ethnolinguistic”   deXined by language, dialect, ethnicity

“ethnic”   deXined by language, dialect, ethnicity, religion,  caste, culture

“unimax”   “maximum sized group, sufXiciently uniXied to  allow a people movement towards Christ”   deXined by language, dialect, ethnicity, religion,  caste, culture, education, politics, ideology,  historical bonds, customs, behaviour

10 / 40 window   gospelresistant darkness

86% least‐evangelised people  78% least‐evangelised p/g’s  •  2.5 billion Muslims,   Hindus, Buddhists  82% of poorest people  •  2.4 billion < $1.40 / day  overpopulation, disease    AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis  prejudice, abuse, illiteracy    dictatorships, corruption    children, women, Christians

10 / 40 window

Christian workers    94.5% among evangelised    4.8% evangelised /  resistant     0.7% among unreached

for every unreached ethné    580+ evangelical, great  commission churches    40,000+ believers

fourth wave, 1966‐  ethnic people groups

massive prayer‐based growth  •  •  •  •

centre of gravity no longer in West  •  •  •  •

still accelerating…  170 million praying daily for “revival”  20 million prayer “primary ministry”  worldwide Christian radio coverage  ‘60’s Africa  ‘70’s Latin America  ‘80’s East Asia  ‘90’s Eurasia

ﬁDh wave, 1980‐  nonWestern mission movements

vibrant, emerging force in world mission  •  •

close to unreached peoples  •  •

geographically  culturally

huge biblical educational requirement  •

vibrant, vast numbers  nonwestern Pentecostal movements   engaging seriously with world mission

partnership opportunity: YSC’s / OSC’s

have waves made?

number of non‐ChrisFans per believer  400  350

360

300  250  200

220

150  100  50  0

69  27

21  11  7  100 AD  1000 AD  1500 AD  1900 AD  1950 AD  1980 AD  1990 AD  ratio of non‐Christian to believer (Lausanne Task Force)

raFo of congregaFons to people groups  700      600      583

500      400      300      200      162

100      0

33  10  1   1/5  0      100 AD  1000 AD 1500 AD 1900 AD 1950 AD 1980 AD 1990 AD  missional congregations per unreached people group

to be done?

the great imbalance  reached  61%

3.9 billion  58%

9169

1 billion = 1000, 000, 000

39%

2.5 billion

individuals

42%

6721  92%

128,000

unreached

ethnic people groups

12,000

mission personnel  (not incl. RC)

staLsLcs courtesy Joshua Project 2006

why it can be done…

500 million Christians committed to act  •  •  •

annual ‘disposable’ earnings $2.5 trillion   •  •

$8 billion given to missions (33c per $100)  Christians own 60 million computers

3 million full‐time Christian workers  •  •

annual growth rate 6.9%  faster than global population growth  100 million are young believers

285, 000 career missionaries  30, 000 broadcasting crossculturally

“look around among the nations and see! and be astonished! Astounded! for I am putting into effect a work in your days that you would not believe if it were told you” —Habakkuk 1:5

covenant harvests  A GREAT NATION, BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING   to every family on earth

harvest of  MESSIANIC   COMMUNITY

harvest of  GENTILE PEOPLES

a global   shaking

new heaven and earth

harvest of  JEWISH PEOPLE

the eternal purpose

academy of mission

the high call of God to the messianic community 1 destiny of the messianic community

2 vocation of the messianic community

3 design of the messianic community

4 dynamic of the messianic community

pressing toward the high call of God 5 running the race marked out for us

6 leading Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people into their inheritance

7 the arena of spiritual conflict

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