Apostolic Function
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1. Apostolic Function begins with the Great Commission.
1. Apostolic Function begins with the Great Commission.
a. What is the GC?
a. What is the GC?
b. Matt 28:18-20
b. Matt 28:18-20
Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
c. God given right to hang out with lost people
c. God given right to hang out with lost people
2. Function
2. Function
a. Function like an apostle.
a. Function like an apostle.
b. Allan Johnson Definition: “AF means taking how apostles function in a heuristic fashion and infusing our work with that same vision. At both the level of the individual cross-cultural worker, the mission team, and the sending agency, there is a focus on the apostolic task of preaching the Gospel where it has not been heard, planting the church where it does not exist, and leading people to the obedience of faith so that they, too, will express Jesus Christ in their social worlds and participate in God’s global mission.”
b. Allan Johnson Definition: “AF means taking how apostles function in a heuristic fashion and infusing our work with that same vision. At both the level of the individual cross-cultural worker, the mission team, and the sending agency, there is a focus on the apostolic task of preaching the Gospel where it has not been heard, planting the church where it does not exist, and leading people to the obedience of faith so that they, too, will express Jesus Christ in their social worlds and participate in God’s global mission.”
c. What did the apostles do?
c. What did the apostles do?
d. How do we follow suit?
d. How do we follow suit?
i. Do all need this gifting? Who does?
3. Partnership
3. Partnership
a. How does partnership relate to apostolic function?
a. How does partnership relate to apostolic function?
b. Examples of apostolic partnership.
b. Examples of apostolic partnership.
4. AGWM History and Apostolic Function
4. AGWM History and Apostolic Function
a. Growth of the Concepts of National Church and Partnership
a. Growth of the Concepts of National Church and Partnership
i. Early organization-Foreign district councils affiliated with the US AG
ii. 1921 set of three articles by Alice Luce in the Pentecostal Evangel on planting “apostolic churches”. Influence by Roland Allen’s 1912 work on m methods of Paul
iii. 1915 GC lays the principle of ev according to the NT method
iv. 1921 GC adopts the goal of establishing three-self “native churches.” Second principle stated “The Pauline example will be followed so far as possible, by seeking out neglected regions where the gospel has not yet been preached, lest we build upon another’s foundation (Romans 15:20).
My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church has already been started by someone else.
v. 1930’s El Salvador the first self governing national church organization with others soon following.
vi. 1930’s to 1950’s a series of unexplored assumptions about national church contributed to a conventional understanding that equated “national church” with the boundaries of the nation state.
vii. A natural shift from pioneer foundational work to development of organizations of churches, to working in partnership with those churches.
5. Questions
5. Questions