Mission: The Example
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12/02 - The Origin
12/09 - The Cost
12/16 - The Strategy
12/23 - The Example
12/30 - The Opportunity
God is transcendent
God is transcendent
beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience
Two ways God is transcendent
Two ways God is transcendent
Greatness
Greatness
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?”
“Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Holiness
Holiness
But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
There is no one who calls upon your name,
who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
God is knowable only by revelation
God is knowable only by revelation
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Immanuel
Immanuel
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
God with us
God with us
Two ways God is transcendent:
Greatness
Holiness
Servant
Servant
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
How did God make himself known?
How did God make himself known?
Incarnation
Incarnation
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
If God’s central way of reaching His world was to incarnate himself in Jesus, then our way of reaching the world should likewise be incarnational. – Brad Brisco
Imitation
Imitation
To be a disciple of Christ is to imitate Christ
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
We are to imitate the incarnation of Christ in two ways:
Proximity
Presence
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
We are more than imitators, we are witnesses
We are more than imitators, we are witnesses
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
3 Views of Church
3 Views of Church
Heritage View
Heritage View
The church is a place where certain things happen
Contemporary View
Contemporary View
The church is a vendor of religious goods and services
Missional View
Missional View
The church is a people who are the extension of Jesus’ mission in the world
Sacred vs Secular
Sacred vs Secular
a. Dualism
i. Such a worldview tends to assume that the spiritual is the higher realm, and the secular, or material world, lacks deep meaning.
ii. Dualism leads to multiple divisions in thinking; including the division between the clergy (spiritual) and the laity (secular), the church (spiritual) and the world (secular), and between so-called religious practices (Bible study, prayer, worship) and so-called secular practices (work, art, eating).
A proper and biblical understanding is that all Christians are called to “full-time ministry,” doing good work well for the glory of God, regardless of their specific vocation. If God reigns over all things (and He does), then all things are sacred. But too often people leave their homes on Monday morning and somehow think they leave God behind. Instead, the church needs to help people recognize that, regardless of what God has called them to do, they are contributing to — and participating in — God’s redemptive mission. – Brad Brisco