Integral Mission

This is me • David, Minu and Ellie

• Youth worker

• Church planter

• Tearfund

• Church since 3 years old

My integral mission journey

• The God of the incarnation is always personal

• Five key Sunday school verses that have defined my discipleship

• You must be born again

You must be born again

• Stuck on the fridge

• For God so loved David that he gave His only son that David would not perish but have everlasting life

• I have never left this place because I do a lot of perishing and need a saviour

My integral mission journey

• You must be born again

• Be holy as I am holy-discipleship for transformation

My integral mission journey

• You must be born again

• Be holy as I am holy-discipleship for transformation

• Be being filled with the Holy Spirit

My integral mission journey

• You must be born again

• Be holy as I am holy-discipleship for transformation

• Be being filled with the Holy Spirit

• Go into all the world and preach the good news

• ‘Christian programmes for justice and compassion severed from their

proper roots in the life of the local congregation lose their character as

signs of the presence of Christ and they risk becoming mere crusades

fuelled by a moralism that can become self-righteous. And the life of the

worshipping congregation severed from its proper expression in

compassionate service in the secular community around it risks becoming

a self-centred existence serving only the needs and desires of its own

members.’  

• Lesslie Newbigin The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission (1995)

My integral mission journey

• You must be born again

• Be holy as I am holy-discipleship for transformation

• Be being filled with the Holy Spirit

• Go into all the world and preach the good news

• Remember the poor

• Jesus never asked us to serve the poor

• He commanded us to seek the Kingdom

• You can serve the poor without seeking the Kingdom

• You cannot seek the Kingdom without serving the poor

The mission Jesus gave us

• What is more important- prayer or Bible Study?

• What is more important- evangelism or social action?

The mission Jesus gave us

• Primary need is for relationship with Jesus

• Priority of need (and action) determined by:

◦ Relationship

◦ Context

◦ Holy Spirit