Jesus' missionary message and work

Thinking of Mission...

"We talk of the 2nd coming; half the world has never heard of the 1st." -Oswald J. Smith

"Never pity missionaries; envy them!" - Robert C. Shannon

"God's work done in God's way will never lack G's supply" -Hudson Taylor

   

 

Jesus the Missionary - incarnational mission

J' sense of mission

• Sent one (Johannine theme: 5:36; 6:57; 7:29; 8:42; 11:42; 17:3, 8, 21, 23)
• Sending one (john 20:21)

J set out the prime example of what the mission is!

• From heaven to earth : crossing the border!
• Incarnational mission

     

  missio dei

   

   

 

 

The word incarnated, translated!

Incarnation / pentecost

Two cardinal events in salvation history

   

Jesus' missionary message

• "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."(Matt 4:17)
• "The Spirit of the L is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the L's favor." (Luke 4:18-19)

   

Message contextualized, personalized.

• Make you fishers of men(Mat 4:19)
• Samaritan woman (Jn 4:8-26)
• Sermon on the Mount (Mat 5-7)

   

Jesus' Missionary work

• Threefold office of Messiah

  : Prophet, Priest, King

• Threefold ministry of J

  : Preaching, Teaching, and Healing (Mt. 4:23)

• Healer
• Liberator
• servant