Psalm 67 (ESV)

PSALM 67 (ESV)

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah2 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

PSALM 67 (ESV)5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.7 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!

God’s Mandate to Us

Matthew 28:16-20, Psalm 67, John 20:21, Acts 1:8

INTRODUCTION

Let the Nations be Glad by John Piper“Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more” (p. 15)

INTRODUCTION

Mandate – To live under mandate is to be entrusted with a task of lasting significance. Mandates are not commands we assign small errands or daily chores. A mandate, on the other hand, releases authority and responsibility to pursue endeavors of historic importance. God has entrusted to Christ, and with Him to the Church, a mandate to fulfill His purpose for all of history.

MAIN IDEA

God has given us a mandate to know and worship Him and to share with others their need to know Him

OUTLINE

I. His Mandate

II. The Great Commission not the Great Suggestion

III. To All Nations (panta ta ethnos)

I. HIS MANDATE

Christ’s mandate calls us to continue the work He began during His life until it is complete in every people.

John 20:21 –“As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

I. HIS MANDATE

Christ modelled God’s concern for world evangelization.

Christ also prepared a dynamic, multiplying movement capable of evangelizing the world.

I. HIS MANDATE

Christ’s strategic focus:• to the Jewish people• to the Gentiles• to the few

I. HIS MANDATE

“Master Plan of Evangelism”By Robert Coleman

Jesus Strategy focused on:A. Reproducing characterB. Reproducing structure

II. THE GREAT COMMISSION NOT THE GREAT SUGGESTION

Matthew 28:16-20 (ESV)

16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

II. THE GREAT COMMISSION NOT THE GREAT SUGGESTION

“On Mission with God”By Henry Blackby and Avery Willis

The article sums up much of God’s ways of involving us in His will: “He calls every one of His followers to join Him in that relationship of love, power and purpose.”

III. TO ALL NATIONS (PANTA TA ETHNOS)

Matthew 28:19 (ESV)“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations”

Greek form

Panta ta ethne (panta = all, ta = the, ethne = nations)


Discipling All The Peoples By John Piper

“One would have to go entirely against the flow of the evidence to interpret the phrase panta ta ethne as “all Gentile individuals” (or “all countries”). Rather, the focus of the command is the discipling of all the people groups of the world. This conclusion comes from the following summary of our biblical investigation:


1. The plural ethne can mean either Gentile individuals or people groups.

2. The phrase panta ta ethne occurs 18 times in the NT. Only once must it mean Gentile individuals. Nine times it must mean people groups. The other 8 times are ambiguous.

3. Virtually all of the 100 or so uses of panta ta ethne in the Greek Old Testament refer to nations in distinction from the nation of Israel.

4. Mark 11:17 shows that Jesus probably thinks in terms of people groups when he envisions the worldwide purpose of God

How Many People Groups Are There?

Total Peoples by Country(People Group counted for each country it is in.This is the list most often referred to as the peoples of the world.)

16,600


How Many People Groups Are Considered Unreached / Least-Reached?(Using criteria of less than 2% Evangelical and less than 5% Adherent)

Best current estimate of unreached / least-reached

ethnic people groups:6,900


Countries with the Most Unreached PeoplesCountry # Unreached

Peoples

India 2034

China 456

Pakistan 435

Bangladesh 339

Nepal 328


The ‘Joshua Project Progress Scale’ provides an estimate of the progress of church planting among people groups.

Joshua Project Progress ScaleStage Level Level Description

Unreached / Least-ReachedLess than 2% Evangelicals and

Less than 5% Christian Adherents

Formative / Nominal ChurchLess than 2% Evangelicals and

Greater than 5% Christian Adherents

Significant / Established ChurchGreater than 2% Evangelicals

Very few, if any, known Evangelicals.Professing Christians less than or equal to 5%.

Evangelicals greater than 0.01%, but less than or equal to 2%.Professing Christians less than or equal to 5%.Very few, if any, known Evangelicals.Professing Christians greater than 5%.

Evangelicals greater than 0.01%, but less than or equal to 2%.Professing Christians greater than 5%.

Evangelicals greater than 2%, but less than or equal to 5%.

Evangelicals greater than 5%.

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Progress of the Gospel by people group.Geopolitical boundaries are ignored.



VISION OF COCA-COLA:“A can of coke in the handof every person on the planet.”

World as Coke DrinkersApproximate Percentages

10% Coke Fans (True Followers of Christ)20% Cola Drinkers (Nominal Adherents of Christianity)40% Non Cola Drinkers (Heard, but not responded)30% Cola Unknown (Virtually no exposure to Gospel)


A Church for every People GroupGlobal Total 16,600Unreached / Least Reached 6,900

Status Summary

The Gospel to the Ends of the EarthTrue Believers 10%Nominal Adherents 20%Heard, no response 40%Virtually no exposure 30%



* Explosion of the non-western Church *• True Christianity has grown by more than 300 million

believers in the past ten years.• About 10 million of these new Christians are from North

America and Europe• The rest – 290 million – are from developing countries

like Nigeria, Brazil, India and China.

The Global South: The new faces of Evangelical Christianity


1975 – 3,000 churches2005 – 55,000 churches2010 – Expect to send out over 10,000 cross-cultural workers

into the 10/40 Window in the next 15 years as tentmaking missionaries.

* Philippines *


• 1948 less than 1 million believers.• 2013 conservative estimates suggest over 90 million believers. Most all of the growth has been in the last 35 years.

• Over 12,000 new Chinese believers every day! The great need is for pastoral training.

* China *

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