Biblical Theology of Mission

MISSION IN THE BIBLE
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)
WHY ARE WE HERE?
WHY ARE WE BEING EKBALLOEDTO THE HARVEST?
WHAT GROUNDS OUR MISSION?
WHAT IS MISSION?
WHERE DID MISSION COME FROM?
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)
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
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)
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)
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
EXERCISE: HOW WOULD YOU JUSTIFY YOUR MISSIONARY LIFE AND EFFORT
FROM 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 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
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.
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)
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
READ GENESIS 17:1-8
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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
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
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
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)
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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
READ ROMANS 8:18-29
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?
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?
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?
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.
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?
READ LUKE 24:44-47
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?
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
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)
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?

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