Delivered to the Perspectives class in Statesboro, GA on February 20, 2020 In this lesson we will see how God launched the World Christian movement. We will discover that the Church is a double structure that endures to this day. We will watch how ordinary people chose a strategy of suffering which they learned from Jesus and will consider how we can live with that same apostolic passion. We will examine the biblical grounds of hope for an enormous in-gathering at the end of the age. Winter, Ralph. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: Reader and Study Guide - eBook . William Carey Library. Kindle Edition.

1. Perspectives Lesson 5Mark Tabladillo Ph.D.
February 20, 2020

2. Major Message
• Intention: “apostolic passion”
• Keep cultural context
• Keep core gospel message
• Outcome: Christ-following movements
• Glorify God
• Bring blessing to societies

3. Major
Sections
• How God opened the door of faith to all
peoples
• How we know the difference between outreach
and outcome
• How to create mature movements through the
Bible and Holy Spirit
• How apostolic suffering accompanies the gospel
advance
• How to understand apostolic bands (mission
structures)
• How to adopt apostolic passion personally

4. How God opened the
door of faith to all
peoples

9. Peter: the
breakthrough
• Gentiles were granted the same gift of life by
the Holy Spirit
• Salvation did not require becoming cultural
Jews, but rather adopting the spiritual Jew,
Jesus Christ

16. Paul: the
acceleration
• Gentiles by the thousands were entering
through faith
• Not through cultural performance
• Not through religious performance

22. The councils:
the unleashing
• God was fulfilling his ancient purpose to form a
people of worship for his name among the
nations

24. How we know the
difference between
outreach and outcome

25. The Wall and the Canyon
The Wall of Communication
• Barrier of understanding
• Challenge faced by the missionary
• To communicate the gospel
• Miracle of revelation
The Canyon of Conversion
• Barrier of acceptance
• Challenge face by respondent people
• To follow Christ
• Miracle of repentance

26. How to create mature
movements through
the Bible and Holy
Spirit

28. How to Build a Church
• Mechanism (intention)
• Baptism: proclaimed allegiance to the God of the Bible
• Teaching: growing obedience to Christ the Lord
• Result
• Kingdom communities or churches

29. How do we know a
church has been
planted?

30. How apostolic suffering
accompanies the
gospel advance

31. From Lesson
One
For His glory in global worship, and for the
blessing of all nations, God purposes to overcome
evil by redeeming a people who will love and
obey Him within every people.
• Winter, Ralph. Perspectives on the World
Christian Movement: Reader and Study Guide -
eBook . William Carey Library. Kindle Edition.

32. Purposes in
Suffering
• Triumph of God’s Truth
• Speak the objective truth in love
• Defeat of Satan
• Break bondage to sin
• Glory of God
• Shame of death, focus on Jesus Christ

33. This anthology includes essays from both classic and
contemporary theologians, Bible teachers, and missionaries
such as John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
John Piper, Corrie ten Boom, Joni Eareckson Tada, and Helen
Roseveare. Each entry expounds on a Bible verse, leading
readers to see and be comforted by God's perspective,
purpose, and provision in suffering.

36. How to understand
apostolic bands
(mission structures)

37. Context
• The churches that the apostles and Paul planted
were, for the most part, light and lean “house
churches” without a great deal of institutional
trappings. Such house churches multiplied quickly
throughout whole cities.
• When God desired there to be a cross-cultural
extension of the gospel, beyond the range of
existing churches, there came about another Church
structure, what some have called “the apostolic
band.”
• Winter, Ralph. Perspectives on the World Christian
Movement: Reader and Study Guide - eBook .
William Carey Library. Kindle Edition.

38. Apostolic Band
Features
• Set their own membership
• Charted out their goals
• Economically self-sufficient
• Not expected to answer to a particular local
church
• Worked in parallel with congregational parish
structure
• Goal: cultural church movementsApostolic
Band
Local
Church

40. Recap of Acts
14:21-23
• Preaching the gospel
• Making disciples
• Bringing converts into corporate life
• Organizing converts into local congregations

41. Strategy of
Paul’s
Apostolic
Band
• In early years: visit all the Jewish synagogues in
the Roman empire, starting with Asia Minor
• Later: plant churches
• Messianic synagogues where Jewish people
were responsive to the gospel
• Gentile congregations wherever the
majority of believers were Gentiles

43. How to adopt apostolic
passion personally

44. •What the essential processes are that make people grow.
•How those processes fit into a biblical understanding of
spiritual growth and theology.
•How spiritual growth and real-life issues are one and the
same.
•What the responsibilities are of pastors, counselors, and
others who assist people in growing—and what your own
responsibilities are in your personal growth.

45. there really is a big picture. It is the story of God and his
creation that was lost, and of his work to restore it to himself.
This big picture is very important as we think about entering
into the specifics of people’s lives; we must not lose sight of
what God is doing in the world. As the apostle Paul said, “All
this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s
sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of
reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18–19). This “message of
reconciliation” is at the heart of the gospel. In salvation and in
the growth process, God is reconciling things, bringing them
back to the way they should be.
Cloud, Henry. How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About
Personal Growth (p. 27). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

46. In The Purpose Driven Life you'll find the answers to three of
life's most important questions:
•The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
•The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
•The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?

47. YOU WERE MADE FOR A MISSION.
God is at work in the world, and he wants you to join him. This
assignment is called your mission. God wants you to have both
a ministry in the Body of Christ and a mission in the world. Your
ministry is your service to believers, and your mission is your
service to unbelievers. Fulfilling your mission in the world is
God’s fifth purpose for your life. Your life mission is both shared
and specific. One part of it is a responsibility you share with
every other Christian, and the other part is an assignment that
is unique to you.
Warren, Rick. The Purpose Driven Life (p. 279). Zondervan.
Kindle Edition.

48. When is the mission
over?