Home MissionsWhat does THAT mean?

Marching Orders

The Great Commission

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18-20

MissionsGot it.

All Nations

Make disciples

Go

Baptizing

Teaching

But wait!There’s more.

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will

be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea

and Samaria, and to the ends of the

earth.” Acts 1:8

The Plan

Providence

• Local• Regional• Outsiders• The World

We don’t like Samaritans.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1907

SAMARIA??But wait. SAMARATIANS live there.

930 BC. Israel split into Northern and Southern Kingdoms Nation of Israel splits

Divided Kingdom

930 BC

722 BC. Northern Kingdom taken into Captivity by the Assyrians

930 BC722 BC

Assyrians settled in what was the Northern Kingdom.

Their intermarriage with Jews created the Samaritans.

Jews didn’t like Samaritans, but Jesus didn’t care.

Remember the woman at the well?

Now what?

So they waited.

Holy Spirit comes

Peter Preaches

http://www.slatoffsculpture.com/sculpture/liturgical/stpeterpreachingatpentecost/

BAM! 3000 people get saved.

1,151 people 2014 in Bangladesh

Instant Mega-Church.Now what?

Follow the directions!

Do it like Jesus did.

[The new believers] devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God…

Acts 2:42-47

Make disciplesBaptize

Teach

The church grows!

3000 plus more daily

[They were together praising God]and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47

Many of the 3000 new believers went home and the gospel went with them.

The Church Grew as People Shared their New Faith

Remember the directions!

Forgetting

something, folks?

JerusalemJudeaSamaria and to the uttermost.

Remember the directions!

There is a bigger plan

A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Acts 8:1

Those who had been scattered

preached the word wherever

they went.Acts 8:4

Philip went down to a city

in Samaria and

proclaimed the Messiah there.

Acts 8:4

He also met the Ethiopian Eunuch, who brought the gospel to

Africa.

Philip

Philip

Persecution spread the church

Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. 

Acts 11:19

Expanded beyond Jews to Greeks

19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. 

20 Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. 

21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 11:19-21

and the church grew!

Note that men from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch to share with Greeks

Lucius?

From Cyprus

People from Cyrene were at Pentecost.

The persecution sent people to Cyprus.

The church in Jerusalem hears the news and needs to see what is going on.

22 News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 23 When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.24 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

Acts 11:22-26

Barnabas

Saul

The church is growing!!

How is it growing?Christians sharing

their faith.

Antioch becomes a sending church

Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

Acts 13:1-3

Paul’s Three Missionary Journeys

Churches are planted all over the region.

Paul, with others, expanded the mission to include the GentilesJews, SamaritansGreeks, Gentiles

Marching Orders Go Make disciples Baptize Teach Jerusalem Judea Samaria On to the

uttermost

PAG

DisciplesWhat about the rest of the world?

That’s where foreign missions comes in.

When a church was planted, the

people spread the

gospel.

As God led, people were

sent from churches to other places to spread the

gospel.

New Testament Church Growth: Guiding Principles

Share the Gospel with others.

Send others where you can’t go.

How does all this relate to Home Missions?

Evangelism OutreachMissions

Let’s clear up some terminology first.

What’s the Difference?

Evangelism MissionsShare the Gospel with others

Job of all believers

Send others where you can’t go.

Job of those specially called

To go where there is no churchto share the gospel

and establish churches

Think about it.

If the growth of the church in America today solely depended on how you are sharing your faith, how would we be doing?

Ouch.

You know it does, right? But I haven’t been to classes and I don’t know the

bible really well and I get all tongue tied and I just don’t know what to say.

And you’re thinking….

Neither did the early Christians.

Jesus did the hard work already.

All you need to know is

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ll have messed up and done wrong.

ut God sent Jesus to fix that.elieve in Him. He came for you too.

onfess your sin (say you’re sorry to God)ome to Jesus.Let’s Make This

Easy.

Your story. The gospel story.

BEFORE I met Christ.

HOW I met Christ.

SINCE I met Christ.

Now that wasn’t all that hard, was it?

What is the Role of the Local Church?

Outreach

Worship | Teaching | Growing Disciples | Faith Community | Help the Community | Support Missions

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.

2 Timothy 2:2

Teaching

What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

2 Timothy 2:2-3

What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

James 2:14-17

It’s ALL About Opening Doors

Evangelism

Outreach

MissionsSharing the good news about salvation through Jesus with someone who doesn’t know. Sharing the gospel.

“…blaze the trail, to pioneer, to initiate kingdom breakthroughs into new areas, and to lay foundations on which others can build. When it comes to extending the reign of God on earth, they … go first.”1….set apart for a distinct task that is fulfilled beyond the boundaries of the church.2

require the appointing of individuals to the task of “stepping beyond” the boundaries of the local church’s influence in order to initiate the kingdom where it would not otherwise occur.3

2,3 hMark Naylor 2008 http://impact.nbseminary.com/the-difference-between-missions-and-outreach/

1Miley, George. 2003. Loving the Church, Blessing the Nations: Pursuing the Role of Local Churches in Global Mission.

Work of the church in the community.

Let’s Talk About Home Missions

Home Missions Missions in MY country

Foreign Missions Missions to OTHER

countries

The Gospel Traveled with Explorers

Did you know?

2. http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/christopher-columbus

"O Lord, Almighty and everlasting God, by Thy Holy Word Thou hast created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea; blessed and glorified be Thy Name, and praised be Thy Majesty, which hath deigned to use us, Thy humble servants, that Thy holy Name may be proclaimed in this second part of the earth."

When Christopher Columbus landed in 1492, he kissed the ground, named it San Salvador which means Holy Savior, and prayed:

“…the colonial enterprise was based on the necessity to develop European commerce and the obligation to propagate the Christian faith.”

1. Gerrie ter Haar, James J. Busuttil, eds. (2005). Bridge or barrier: religion, violence, and visions for peace, BRILL. p. 125.

Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid.

Mayflower Compact

November 11, 1620Plymouth, MA

John Eliot1604-1690

• 1631 sailed to America as chaplain

• Pastor at First Church in Roxbury MA

• Founded schools including Roxbury Latin

• 1646 began outreach to Native Americans in Dorchester, MA

• Ministered to Native Americans in Massachusetts

• 1663 Translated the Bible for the Native Americans

• First completed Bible published in the Western Hemisphere

George Whitfield1714-1770

• Met Christ through Charles Wesley

• Preached 18,000 sermons in England and the 13 US Colonies

• Spoke to crowds of thousands

• Took offerings for an orphanage

• Began the Great Awakening 1730-1740

Jonathan Edwards1703-1758

July 8, 1741

• Pastor in Connecticut• Preached during Great

Awakening & published sermons

• Famous sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• Author – Life of David Brainerd

• Missionary to Native Americans

David Brainerd(1718–1747)

Missionary to Native Americans

Biography influencedWilliam Carey, Father of

Modern Missions

Sarah Allen 1764–1849

• Born a slave in Virginia

• Freed in 1800• Established the

American Methodist Episcopal Church

• Used her home in PA to house slaves on the underground railroad

5 Williams College StudentsWilliamstown, MA

Influenced by writers of the Great Awakening

Impact

1806The Haystack Prayer Meeting

• Student Movement

• Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

• American Bible Society

• 1808 Formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• 1812 sent five missionaries to Burman & India

American Home Mission SocietyFounded in New York, 1832 "to preach the Gospel, establish churches and give support and ministry to the unchurched and destitute.”

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May, 1849

American Missionary AssociationMembers from• American Board of

Commissioners for Foreign Missions

• American Home Mission Society

Established in 1846 to • abolish slavery• educate African

Americans• promote racial

equality• promote Christian va

lues

Abolitionists

Disagreed with their tolerance of slavery and formed their own mission.

Wesleyan Methodist Gospel Car

1890 to 1921

The aim was to pass on the Gospel in a rural setting, which would then be carried into the towns and cities.

Aimee Semple McPhearson1890-1944

-Pentecostal Evangelist -Radio Host -Founder of Foursquare Church -Used media to get the message out

David Wilkerson1931-2011

• Young Pastor in PA

• Went to NYC street gangs 1959

• Founded Teen Challenge

• Times Square Church

In our neighborhood!

Teen ChallengeWomen’s Home JACQUI STROTHOFF

Founder & Executive Director

Assemblies of God Home Missionaries

Serving Locally

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"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?

Romans 10:13-15a

Home Missions. It Matters.