1. The Expansion of the World Christian Movement
Lesson 6
The Expansion of the
World Christian Movement

2. MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES SYLLABUS
Biblical
The Living God is a Missionary God
The Story of His Glory
Your Kingdom Come
Mandate for the Nations
Unleashing the Gospel
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3. MISSIONS PERSPECTIVES SYLLABUS
Historical
The Expansion of the World Christian Movement
Eras of a Mission History
Pioneers of the World Christian Movement
The Task Remaining
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4. Assignment: Read “The Kingdom Strikes Back:  The Ten Epochs of Redemptive History,” by Ralph Winter, pgs
Winter contends that history is a “single, coherent drama.”  What are the outlines of the “plot”?  What themes are repeated?  What major lessons are to be observed?
Outline: Ten Epochs thru 4,000 years, the counterattack on evil, redemption by blessing, mechanisms of missions, advance & flourishings
Themes: grace of God, God’s intervention in an evil world
Major lessons: God can raise up others if we falter.
Homework Review

5. Introduction to Historical Perspective
Quotables:
We study history not to find out what happened, but to find out who we are.”
“People who are not making history become tools in the hands of those who will.”
Introduction to Historical Perspective

6. Introduction to Lesson 6
The Kingdom Strikes Back
Human beings have virtually erased their own history
Redemptive plan, his story always becoming His Story
Libraries, literature, cities have been wiped out
God’s desire to commune with man during the cool of the day turned into civil war, genocide, etc.
Blood diamond conflict in Sierra Leone, Angola, Khmer Rouge, etc.
Mozambique 27 years of civil war
Evil detailed in surviving documents of major religions
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7. Don’t ever think the Bible is unrelated stories as taught in Sunday School
One single drama, authored by God that we GET TO participate in!
What’s the theme? The entrance of the Kingdom, the power and glory of the living God in this enemy- occupied territory
Lesson 6 Intro

8. The counterattack did not just await Jesus Christ
First 5 epochs
Theme: grace of God
His plan: conferring an unusual blessing on Abe’s seed
Enemy’s plan: stirs up hate, distorts DNA sequences, destruction, divorce, division, dissension, distrust
Virulent germs tear down confidence in God’s character
Malaria strains in Moz resistant to malaria medicine
Ten Epochs over 4,000 years

9. Four Mechanisms of Mission
Voluntary going
Involuntary going
Voluntary coming
Involuntary coming
Four Mechanisms of Mission

10. Second Half of the Story
Advance both Cultural & Geographic
Dismissing the BOBO Theory
Flourishings or Renaissances
Two structures of God’s redemptive mission for Period V:
Modality (church) – structures are inclusive, nurture- oriented, structured fellowship, i.e., church congregation
Sodality (para-church) – structures are second decision, task oriented, structured fellowship, i.e., missions society or military force
Acts 14:21-28
Acts 13:1-5
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