God’s Global Mission

The Great CommissionOf

Our Lord Jesus Christ

First Two Well-Known PassagesFrom the Gospels Of Matthew & Mark

Matt 28:19-20 “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.”

Mark 16:19-20 “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”

What’s the Life Setting of these verses of the Great Commission?

Imagine the geo-political context in which our Lord Jesus spoke these words to his beloved disciples.

I am going to suggest to you to look at the context in a new way in order to understand these passages for today’s current situation.

Second Well-known Passage

Acts 1:8 “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.”

How is the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ going to be carried out?

From JerusalemFrom Jerusalem

the the CityCity

to Judea & Samariato Judea & Samaria

the the RegionRegion

to Everywhereto Everywhere

the the WorldWorld

Boston-Pilgrim’s City on a Hill

Boston

Jonathan Edwards

George Whitfield

Charles Finney

Dwight L. Moody

20th Century Boston and New England

The GraveyardOf

Christian MissionsAnd

Missionaries

Boston’s Churches

What did God use What did God use in in

the Quiet Revival? the Quiet Revival?

Both in the 1Both in the 1stst Century Century & the 21& the 21stst Century… Century…

God used(s) CITIES!God used(s) CITIES!

God used(s) DIASPORA PEOPLEGod used(s) DIASPORA PEOPLE

God used(s) RELATIONAL (Primary) God used(s) RELATIONAL (Primary) CULTURECULTURE

God used(s) Spirit-Empowered peopleGod used(s) Spirit-Empowered people

From the City, From the City, to the Region and the World —to the Region and the World —The 1:8s of the New TestamentThe 1:8s of the New Testament

ACTS 1:8. ACTS 1:8. “To Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria “To Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost ends of the earth.”and the uttermost ends of the earth.”

ROMANS 1:8. ROMANS 1:8. “Your faith is being reported “Your faith is being reported

all over the world.”all over the world.”

I THESSALONIANS 1:8. I THESSALONIANS 1:8. “Not only in “Not only in Macedonia and Achaia…(but) everywhere.”Macedonia and Achaia…(but) everywhere.”

The City is a Gold MineThe City is a Gold Mine

““There is gold for the Lord in the cities of There is gold for the Lord in the cities of the world…The city is a gold mine. It the world…The city is a gold mine. It has prominent ethnic (vertical) veins. It has prominent ethnic (vertical) veins. It has prominent sociological (horizontal) has prominent sociological (horizontal) veins. And it has other veins that run at veins. And it has other veins that run at will in all directions …But there is yet will in all directions …But there is yet another level of complexity…The city is another level of complexity…The city is also an organism constantly on the also an organism constantly on the move.”move.”

--Timothy MonsmaTimothy Monsma

Jerusalem

Rome

India

England

20 years

Seismic Shift of Christianity

Arabia(15)

Crete(14)

Rome(13)

Cyrene(12)

Egypt(11)

Judea(5)

Pamphylia(10)

Phrygia(9)Asia(8)

Pontus(7)

Cappa-Docia(6)

Meso-potamia(4)

Elam(3)

Media(2)

Parthian Empire(1)

Numbers indicate sequence listed in Acts 2:9 -11

Diaspora Visitors to Jerusalem at Pentecost

108 Nationalities Represented in Boston and Cambridge Churches

•African

•Albanian

•Angolan

•Antiguan

•Argentinean

•Australian

•Bahamian

•Barbadian

•Belizean

•Brazilian

•British

•Bulgarian

•Burmese

•Byelorussian

•Cambodian

•Cameroonian

•Canadian

•Cape Verdean

•Caribbean/West Indian

•Central American

•Chilean

•Chinese

•Colombian

•Congolese

•Costa Rican

•Croatian

•Cuban

•Curacoan

•Czech

•Dominican

•East Indian

•Ecuadorian

•Egyptian

•Eritrean

•Ethiopian

•Fijian

•Filipino

•French

•German

•Ghanaian

•Greek

•Grenadian

•Guatemalan

•Guyanese

•Haitian

•

•Honduran

•Hong Kong

•Hungarian

•Indian

•Indonesian

•Irish

•Italian

• Ivoirien

•Jamaican

•Japanese

•Kenyan

•Korean

•Laotian

•Latvian

•Lebanese

108 Nationalities Represented in Boston and Cambridge Churches

•Liberian

•Lithuanian

•Malaysian

•Mexican

•Montserratian

•Native American

•Nicaraguan

•Nigerian

•Norwegian

•Palestinian

•Panamanian

•Peruvian

•Polish

•Portuguese

•Puerto Rican

•Romanian

•Russian

•Salvadorian

•Samoan

•Serbian

•Sierra Leonean

•Singaporean

•Slavonic

•South African

•Spanish (Spain)

•Sri Lankan

•St. Barts

•St. Croix

•St. Kittsian

•St. Lucian

•St. Vincent

•Swedish

•Syrian

•Taiwanese

•Tanzanian

•Togolese

•Tortola, BVI

•Trinidadian

•Ugandan

•Ukrainian

•Venezuelan

•Vietnamese

•Virgin Islands

•West African

•Yugoslavian

•Zimbabwean

Boston & Cambridge worship services are held in 31 languages

•Albanian•Amharic•Arabic•Armenian•ASL (Sign)•Burmese•Cantonese•Creole•French•German

•Greek•Igbo•Indonesian•Italian•Khmer•Korean•Latin•Latvian•Lithuanian•Malayalam•Mandarin

•Polish•Portuguese Creole•Portuguese•Russian•Spanish•Syriac•Tigrinya•Ukrainian•Vietnamese•Yoruba

Boston both receives and sends Christians to do ministry in a global exchange

Christians joined together around the world

Boston both receives and sends Christians to do ministry in a global exchange

Christians joined together around the world

Three Eras of Modern Missions

• Mission to Coast-lands

• Inland Missions

• Reaching Unreached People Groups

• Fourth Era: Cities as God's Locus of Mission

Basic Framework for Missions

(1) Missions embrace the whole world

(2) Missions need to be embraced by EVERY follower of Christ

(3) Missions need to be embraced by the body of Christ as a whole

Berlin and its Spiritual Challenges

(1) Communist Heritage

(2) Liberal lifestyle and modern Zeitgeist

(3) Largest Muslim population

Reverse missions and Diaspora missions movements

(1) Reality of immigrant churches in Germany

(2) Mental models towards immigrant churches

Impact of a lack of collaboration with immigrant churches

(1) Limits for people of a majority culture to reach out to immigrants

(2) Distorted image of the body of Christ

Diaspora Missions Research Diaspora Missions Research Project PresentationProject Presentation

Initial Findings:Initial Findings:

10 Diaspora Missions Practitioners10 Diaspora Missions Practitioners

from New England to the Worldfrom New England to the World

Mission Locations: Mission Locations: 1010 PractitionersPractitioners

Bahamas Congo NigeriaBolivia Haiti PeruBrazil India South AfricaBurma Liberia SwedenCambodia Moldova ThailandCameroon Mexico Undisclosed

(Asia)

Types of Diaspora Missions Types of Diaspora Missions

Agriculture Literature

Bible Translation Medical

Church Planting Networking

Construction Orphans

Economic Development Relief

Education Short-term

Evangelism Theological Education

Leadership Development

Not-So-Well-known Passages of the Great Commission

John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 17:20-23 “… I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

… that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Growth of Cities

Global Urban Ministries Network

After 2000 yrs of Acts 1:8, wherever the Gospel has made a significant impact, believers are practicing Acts 1:8 all over again, going beyond their local cities, their Jerusalems to their regions & the World.Time has now come to “Connect the Jerusalems” to be more effective in World Evangelization following the Great Commission verses of John 13:35; 17:20-23.Cape Town GUMNet Luncheon: as a result now CT participant Mac Pier of New York City has begun a conversation among representatives of ten different cities of North America to learn from each other and EGC represents Boston.

Dr. Bobby Bose, Global Urban Ministries Education CoordinatorDr. Bobby Bose, Global Urban Ministries Education CoordinatorEmail: Email: bbose@egc.org

Dr. Bianca Duemling, Intercultual Ministries, Assistant DirectorDr. Bianca Duemling, Intercultual Ministries, Assistant DirectorEmail: Email: bduemling@egc.org

Emmanuel Gospel CenterEmmanuel Gospel Center2 San Juan Street, PO Box 1802452 San Juan Street, PO Box 180245Boston, MA 02118-0994Boston, MA 02118-0994Website: Website: www.egc.orgwww.egc.org

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