National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11 2015)

The Church in God’s

Mission

(Tim Geddert)

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- God’s plan is bigger than individuals.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- God’s plan is bigger than individuals.

- The church is “the covenant people of God.”

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- God’s plan is bigger than individuals.

- The church is “the covenant people of God.”

- The church is God’s prototype for the “restored humanity.”

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- God’s plan is bigger than individuals.

- The church is “the covenant people of God.”

- The church is God’s prototype for the “restored humanity.”

- The church is God’s “contrast society” in a

fallen world.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- Theological and ethical diversity can often

be traced back to diverse ecclesiologies.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter?- Theological and ethical diversity can often be traced back to diverse ecclesiologies.

- Without a clear ecclesiology, we be “collecting good ideas” but it won’t hold together.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter especially to MB’s?.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter especially to MB’s?- Anabaptists restored the NT concept of

“church” in a coercive state-church union.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Ecclesiology: Why does it matter especially to MB’s?- Anabaptists restored the NT concept of “church” in a coercive state-church union.

- With our hybrid identity (Anabaptist-

Evangelical), we are even more confused

about this than most churches.

National Pastors OrientationSan Diego (March 9-11, 2015)

Topics (from which to select) - Perspectives on the church (a poem, a song, a text)

- “I WAS GLAD” (Psalm 122)

- Mandated to subdue and rule (Genesis 1, etc.)

- How does Jesus treat tax collectors? (Matt. 9, 18)

- Mandated to make disciples (Matt. 28:16-20)

- Leadership in the church

- Priorities of the church (Acts 2:42-47)

- Re-living Acts 15

THE PARABLE OF THE TOOL SHED

C.S. Lewis(God in the Dock, in "Collected Works", p.

442)

 

I was standing today in a dark tool shed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood, that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was almost pitch-black. I was seeing the beam, not seeing things by it.

Then I moved, so that the beam fell on my eyes. Instantly the whole previous picture vanished. I saw no tool shed, and (above all) no beam. Instead I saw, framed in the irregular cranny at the top of the door, green leaves moving on the branches of a tree outside and beyond that, 90 odd million miles away, the sun. Looking along the beam, and looking at the beam are very different experiences.

I WAS GLAD

WHEN THEY SAID TO ME

“LET US GO

TO THE LORD’S HOUSE”

 (Psalm 122:1)

Mandated to Make Disciples

16Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’ (Matthew 28)

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

- the Gospel of Matthew;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

- the Gospel of Matthew;

- loving God and neighbor;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

- the Gospel of Matthew;

- loving God and neighbor;

- following the risen Jesus;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

- the Gospel of Matthew;

- loving God and neighbor;

- following the risen Jesus;

- worship;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context:

- the whole Bible;

- the Mission of Jesus;

- the Gospel of Matthew;

- loving God and neighbor;

- following the risen Jesus;

- worship;

- doubt;

Mandated to Make Disciples

Context: - the whole Bible;- the Mission of Jesus;- the Gospel of Matthew;- loving God and neighbor; - following the risen Jesus;- worship; - doubt;- the authority and presence of Jesus.

Mandated to Make Disciples

Content: (TNIV)

19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.

Mandated to Make Disciples

Content:

- Go!

- Make disciples!

- baptizing

- teaching

Mandated to Make Disciples

Content:

- Go!

- Make disciples!

- baptizing

- Teach!

Mandated to Make Disciples

Content:

- Go!

- Make disciples!

- Baptize!

- Teach!

Mandated to Make Disciples

Content:

- going

- Make disciples!

- baptizing

- teaching

The Content of Jesus’ Commission

Make disciples!

or

Disciple the nations!

The Content of Jesus’ Commission

Two clarifications:

1. Which part of the Great Commission

is about “getting conversions”?

The Content of Jesus’ Commission

“Going – be about the business of transforming all nations into Jesus-followers: Do it by initiating people into the Christian life, and then by helping them understand and follow everything I have taught you.”

 

The Content of Jesus’ Commission

Two clarifications:

2. If going is a participle,

is going optional?

The Content of Jesus’ Commission

One more amazing thing!

- We get to do the participle work! - Jesus will do the imperatival work!