1. LIVING FAITH BIBLE INSTITUTE PROPER PERSPECTIVES

2. SECTION I: BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE PART 1: The Missionary Mandate: Mission, Missions, Missionary

3. I.God and Mission

4. I.God and Mission 1. God is a missionary God

5. I.God and Mission 1. God is a missionary God The living God desires to be known.

6. I.God and Mission 1. God is a missionary God God both chooses and sends.

7. I. God and Mission 2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God

8. I. God and Mission 2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God 3. God’s mission reveals God’s plan

9. I. God and Mission 2. Mission exists because God is a missionary God 3. God’s mission reveals God’s plan 4. The mission of the church is based in God

10. II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose

11. II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose A. God’s Mission is rooted in the design for his kingdom

12. II. Mission-The Biblical Purpose A. God’s Mission is rooted in the design for his kingdom 1. This is the theme of history and the Bible.

13. 2. The Bible communicates eternal truths about God’s eternal intentions or plans.

14. 2. The Bible communicates eternal truths about God’s eternal intentions or plans. 3. The throne of God

15. 4. Defining a kingdom - Three parameters for a kingdom

16. Any kingdom will have received authority to rule, or the right to rule as given to or invested in a person.

17. Any kingdom will have subjects under that authority.

18. Any kingdom will also have the exercise of that rule – there is a reality of activity, command, and consequences

19. 5. The issue: who rightfully possesses the kingdom.

20. God set up Lucifer as the king of God’s creation.

21. 5. The issue: who rightfully possesses the kingdom. God set up Lucifer as the king of God’s creation. Lucifer wanted to exalt himself in taking the throne from God.

22. God replaced Lucifer with Adam as king till he sinned.

23. Now God is working out his plan to rule over physical and spiritual realms of his creation and his creatures.

24. God replaced Lucifer with Adam as king till he sinned. Now God is working out his plan to rule over physical and spiritual realms of his creation and his creatures. This is the context in which salvation to man must be seen

25. B. Mission is rooted in the reality of man’s lostness

26. B. Mission is rooted in the reality of man’s lostness 1. Many pastors/missionaries have never really understood that man is lost.

27. 2. Logical questions

28. 2. Logical questions 3. Logical conclusions

29. 2. Logical questions 3. Logical conclusions 4. Man without the Bible is lost.

30. 2. Logical questions 3. Logical conclusions 4. Man without the Bible is lost. 5. What is the basis for mankind's guilt?

31. 6.The basis for God's condemnation

32. 7.The witness of creation

33. 6.The basis for God's condemnation 7.The witness of creation 8.The witness of conscience

34. 6.The basis for God's condemnation 7.The witness of creation 8.The witness of conscience 9.The rejection of God's revelation

35. 6.The basis for God's condemnation 7.The witness of creation 8.The witness of conscience 9.The rejection of God's revelation All men are without excuse.

36. God put a conscience inside of man and creation outside of man yet man has held these truths in unrighteousness.

37. 6. The limits of God’s mercy

38. God put a conscience inside of man and creation outside of man yet man has held these truths in unrighteousness. 6. The limits of God’s mercy Is God just to condemn man?

39. Can man judge God?

40. Does God owe man something?

41. Can man judge God? Does God owe man something? God’s mercy endures forever but his mercy has limits defined by his righteousness

42. 7. The issue is man’s lostness.

43. 8. The basis of God’s judgment

44. 7. The issue is man’s lostness. 8. The basis of God’s judgment 9. The certainty of God’s judgment

45. 7. The issue is man’s lostness. 8. The basis of God’s judgment 9. The certainty of God’s judgment 10. Our mission is found here within the context of God’s mission

46. C. Mission is rooted in God’s very nature

47. 1. God's nature as Love and Light give the basis for His mission in the world.

48. C. Mission is rooted in God’s very nature 1. God's nature as Love and Light give the basis for His mission in the world. a. Love

49. b. Love and God’s mission

50. c. Light

51. b. Love and God’s mission c. Light d. Both love and light are necessary.

52. b. Love and God’s mission c. Light d. Both love and light are necessary. e. God's nature gives both the definition of mission and the motivation in this mission.

53. Definition of mission:

54. Definition of mission: God's desire to restore His own image in lost man by means of salvation.

55. Motivation in mission:

56. God is motivated by His nature, His love for man and His holiness. God is love and God is light. Specifically, these are the two aspects of His nature that motivate him in His mission.