Mission Possible

Mission Impossible

Church, Keep your mind on the mission.

1. The Commission of the Mission (1-3)

The Men

Barnabas

Simeon Cyrene

Lucius of Cyrene

Manaen Close Fried of Herod the Tetrach Herod Antipas

Saul

The Meeting

Fasting and Worship

Fasting and Prayer

The Mandate

Laid Hands

Sent the off

Sent by the Holy Spirit

The Spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him the more intensely missionary we must become.

Henry Martyn (Anglican Missionary)

Proclamation of the Word!

The Order of missions

1. Go to the City

2. Go to the synagogues first (Rom 1:16-17) ; But if they dont listen proclain the gospel to the gentiles

3. Carry out all ministry as a team.

840If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate luke warmness, it is in the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.—14.220

Charles Spurgeon

Missions are a must, not a maybe.

Anonymous

2. The Opposition of the Mission (8-11)

Son on the

PAULUS, SERGIUS, MORE CORRECTLY PAULLUS, was the proconsul (Gk. anthypatos) of *Cyprus in ad 47/8 when the apostle Paul visited that island (Acts 13:7). His name suggests that he was a member of an old Roman senatorial family: if he was the L. Sergius Paullus mentioned in CIL, 6. 31545, he was one of the Curators of the Banks of the Tiber under Claudius. Another inscription (IGRR, 3. 930; cf. EGT, 2, 1900, p. 286) found in Cyprus refers to the proconsul Paulos, while an inscription discovered at Pisidian Antioch in honour of a L. Sergius Paullus, propraetor of Galatia in ad 72–4, is possibly a commemoration of his son.

B. van Elderen (in W. W. Gasque and R. P. Martin (eds.), Apostolic History and the Gospel, 1970, pp. 151–156) considers that the inscription IGRR, 3. 935 is more likely to refer to this proconsul. Commentators disagree over the reality of Paullus’ profession of Christian faith.

3. The Fruition of the Mission (4-7,12)