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Mission
12/02 - The Origin
12/09 - The Cost
12/16 - The Strategy
12/23 - The Example
12/30 - The Opportunity
God is transcendent
beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience
Two ways God is transcendent
Greatness
Holiness
God is knowable only by revelation
Immanuel
God with us
Two ways God is transcendent:
Greatness
Holiness
Servant
Sacrifice
How did God make himself known?
Incarnation
If God’s central way of reaching His world was to incarnate himself in Jesus, then our way of reaching the world should likewise be incarnational.
– Brad Brisco
Imitation
To be a disciple of Christ is to imitate Christ
We are to imitate the incarnation of Christ in two ways:
Proximity
Presence
We are more than imitators, we are witnesses
3 Views of Church
Heritage View
The church is a place where certain things happen
Contemporary View
The church is a vendor of religious goods and services
Missional View
The church is a people who are the extension of Jesus’ mission in the world
Sacred vs Secular
a. Dualism
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Such a worldview tends to assume that the spiritual is the higher realm, and the secular, or material world, lacks deep meaning.
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Dualism leads to multiple divisions in thinking; including the division between the clergy (spiritual) and the laity (secular), the church (spiritual) and the world (secular), and between so-called religious practices (Bible study, prayer, worship) and so-called secular practices (work, art, eating).
A proper and biblical understanding is that all Christians are called to “full-time ministry,” doing good work well for the glory of God, regardless of their specific vocation.
If God reigns over all things (and He does), then all things are sacred.
But too often people leave their homes on Monday morning and somehow think they leave God behind.
Instead, the church needs to help people recognize that, regardless of what God has called them to do, they are contributing to — and participating in — God’s redemptive mission.
– Brad Brisco
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