Lesson 3 Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief.
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Lesson 3
Common Ground?The Challenge of Unbelief
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Missions: The Church’s Marching OrdersOur Lord Jesus gave the church global “marching orders” which involves each one of us. It is precisely because this mission is world-encompassing that it has local implications. Know this global mission well in order to understand the commission graciously given to Proclamation and my particular role in it.
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1.The Real Problem – The Real Solution2.The End Game – The Objective of Missions3.Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief4.It’s Dangerous Over There! Suffering and
Persecution5.You Will Receive Power! The Holy Spirit and
Missions6.Mission of Mercy – Justice and Poverty7.Something More? Scripture as a Guide8.Missions in our DNA - The Global Church 9.Does the Church Need Missions? Summary
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What is your “religion”?
“Religion” or “relationship”?
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Creator
Creature
• Distinction• Dependence• Condescension• Knowledge• Obligation
Covenant
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1. Adam’s Sin• Legal disobedience• Substitute authority• Autonomy• Allegiance to Satan• Fall: All of Creation & All of History• Rebellion and Idolatry
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2. Golden Calf
• They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. (Psalm 106:20)
• They forgot God, their Savior (v.21)• They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known (Dt 32:17)• I have formed you, you are mine (Isaiah 43)
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Idolatry is having or inventing something in which to put our trust instead of, or in addition to, the only true God who has revealed himself in his Word.
- Heidelberg Catechism
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3. The Horrible Exchange
Romans 1:18-25
• Clearly Perceived• They Knew God• They Suppress the Truth• Exchanged the truth about God for a
lie
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Implications
• Unbelief is essentially uniform• Unbelief: not consist of partial truths• Unbelief counterfeits truth• Unbelief is self-deceiving• Unbelief is cultural• Unbelief is suppressing the truth
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Unbelief to Belief• Not even one who seeks God• Complete lack of ability
45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. . . 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (1 Corinthians 15)
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