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The Kingdom of God & The Kingdom of God & MissionsMissions
Viewing missions with Kingdom lenses
The Vineyard missions mandate
Theology
Context
Praxis
Spiritual
Socio-Politica
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PaulineJustificati
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Reformation
Individual
Protestant
Evangelical
Decisions
Cuius regio, eius religio
KingdomTheology
Post-modern
communalism
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Every movement/era has a hermeneutical key
Jesus’ Kingdom messageJesus’ Kingdom message
The Kingdom Will come in the future
Has come – is now present
Is ‘near’ or ‘at hand’
Has been delayed
This age The End
Age to Come
PP
TheThe
ChristianChristian
communitcommunityy
The roots/context of our The roots/context of our theologytheology
Jesus rediscovered in Jesus quests – 19th and 20th C
Initially mediated through Wimber/Ladd but
continually renewed through dialogue with Jesus
scholars of the 3rd Quest
Gospels prioritized over epistles: Jesus over Paul
Big Picture Kingdom theology: resisting reductionism
Originally Jesus People-California-Baby Boomers, but
now engaging with international, multi-cultural,
multi-lingual, pre-modern, modern and post-modern
contexts (what songs to sing?)
Grappling with contextual issues: US centrism or
globalism; G8 versus developing nations;
colonial/post-colonial
Kingdom theology in larger NT Kingdom theology in larger NT contextcontext
Synoptics:KingdomTheology
PaulineTheology:
Grace
John &Paul:Anti-
Gnostic
Kingdom theologyKingdom theology
Begins with the Gospels
Particularly Synoptics
Luke-Acts as primary missions theology (bible)
Different from Conservative Evangelical missiology
Different from Pentecostal missiology
Luke’s theologyLuke’s theology
The new or messianic age has dawned, fulfilling OT expectations and inaugurating the relentless and determined will of God. Its focus is the messianic King, Jesus who, by the power of the Spirit, brings healing and salvation to all nations. This salvation includes previously excluded groups: sinners, the sick, Gentiles, Samaritans, the poor, women and children. It spreads through the proclamation of the word, healing and phenomena of power and revelation. Those who receive this salvation experience forgiveness of sins and respond with song, praise, prayer and wonder. The message has financial and social implications.
Luke’s theologyLuke’s theology
1. The new or messianic age has dawned, fulfilling Old Testament expectations and inaugurating the relentless and determined will of God.
2. Its focus is the messianic King, Jesus.
3. It comes through the power of the Holy Spirit.
4. Jesus the messiah brings healing and salvation.
5. It spreads to all nations.
6. This salvation includes previously excluded groups: sinners, the sick, Gentiles, Samaritans, the poor, women and children.
Luke’s theologyLuke’s theology
7. It spreads through the proclamation of the word (discipleship and witness).
8. It spreads through healing and phenomena of power and revelation.
9. Those who receive this salvation experience forgiveness of sins and respond with song, praise, prayer and wonder.
10.The message has financial and social implications.
Luke-Acts CourseLuke-Acts Course
Luke-Acts CourseLuke-Acts Course
Luke-Acts CourseLuke-Acts Course
Luke-Acts CourseLuke-Acts Course
A sample: Pentecost as A sample: Pentecost as mandatemandate
He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. …
"Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about … in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
So … they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
Acts 1:1-9
PentecostPentecostHe appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. …
"Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about … in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
So … they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
Acts 1:1-9
PentecostPentecostSuddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting … tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language ... Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs--we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” … they asked one another, "What does this mean?” (2:1-12)
What does this mean?What does this mean? Kingdom – Holy Spirit – kingdom – Holy
Spirit
Power of the Holy Spirit – a new international community
So: the Kingdom will now come through the power of the Holy Spirit to create and empower a new international community
Kingdom – Holy Spirit power – New Humanity
What is the “sign” or “signature” of Pentecost? Signs and wonders or the new humanity?
What does this mean?What does this mean? Pentecost: the feast commemorating
the giving of the law – so law abiding will now be accomplished through the Holy Spirit!
Pentecost: reversal of Babel
Pentecost: the prophetic becomes the signature of the new community
The kingdom mystery: hear, near, delayed and future becomes power to do mission: Jerusalem and Judea = M1 Samaria = M2 Gentiles = M3 (people groups)
What does this mean?What does this mean? The kingdom has come
Through the power of the Holy Spirit
Spreading liberating grace
Creating a new reconciled humanity
Bearing the signature of the prophetic
Spreading through all people groups in a relentless strategy of mission
Until the kingdom comes
Three key kingdom Three key kingdom characteristicscharacteristics
1. Sign 1:Power – signs and wonders – prophetic phenomena – “rent a crowd”
2. Sign 2:Community – reconciled across all previous barriers – the “risen body” of the new humanity – a sign and a wonder
3. Sign 3:Mission – geographical/demographic growth and number counting – fearful to worldly powers
CommunityCommunity
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility …
His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility …
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household …
The mystery made known to me by revelation … which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit …
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus …
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 2-3
Community: The new humanityCommunity: The new humanity You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:26-28
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
Colossians 3:9-11The eschatological community
CommunityCommunity
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:
"Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."
Revelation 7:9-10
The presence of the future
The calling of the kingdom The calling of the kingdom communitycommunity
Make disciples of all nations
Through the words and works (signs) of Jesus
Through a mission strategy (Acts 1:8 - M1, M2,
M3)
Reconciled to God and each other: transcending
the divisions of humanity - Babel reversed by
Pentecost
Beyond Jew/Gentile, slave/free, male/female,
Greek/barbarian-Scythian
Confronting the ‘powers’ through our unity
Inaugurating the new humanity (2nd Adam)
Some conclusionsSome conclusions
Vineyard international relations: more than pragmatism
Big Picture Gospel: resisting reductionism
The Catholic, CE and Pentecostal substratum
Knowing-articulating-confessing & doing kingdom missiology
Going boldly where no man has ever gone before!