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Great Bend, KS
Spring 2015
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WHAT is Perspectives?
This non-denominational course presents the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic aspects of fulfilling the Great Commission. We encourage anyone in the who is serious about gaining a deeper understanding of God’s ultimate purpose in the world to attend this course.
Perspectives seeks to reveal the nature of God's heart to be worshipped by all nations, and that we are called to be a part of HIS purpose regardless of whether we feel called to serve overseas, at home or in our own work place. It's about a deeper understanding of who God is, what He's about, and how we are ALL called to be a part of it.
Throughout the 16 weeks, students will learn about God’s nature, His purpose, and how He uses ordinary people like us to bring the glory to His name. Over 100,000 people have taken the Perspectives course. This year there are over 200 classes world-wide with over 7,000 students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class begins January 12, 2015 .................. What Will the Course Entail?
Class time will be held once a week and will include lectures from dynamic professors from around the world, interactive learning experiences, and creative demonstrations. The readings include 170 articles from 150 mission scholars and practitioners. Homework assignments are specifically designed to engage every aspect of a Christian’s life and to encourage students to see how to they can utilize their own unique abilities to advance the Kingdom locally, nationally, and internationally. - Biblical Lessons (1-5): The Word of God is revealed with striking clarity as Perspectives illuminates God's unchanging promises as they unfold from Genesis to Revelation.
- Historical Lessons (6-9): Discover your spiritual lineage as you learn Christian history is wrought with the immeasurable power of God as He makes His name known among the nations.
- Cultural Lessons (10-11): The peoples of the world come alive as we eventually see, through Christ Jesus, the expressions of the New Testament church thriving among every nation, tribe, people and language.
- Strategic Lessons (12-15): Find your place in God's story as there are endless opportunities to help complete the Great Commission.
If you are unsure or just want to come check it out... * THE FIRST TWO WEEKS ARE FREE! * (Note: Students that have registered will have priority if the class fills up)
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Lesson 1
The Living God is a Missionary God
God's purpose is three-fold: against evil—kingdom victory; for the nations—redemption and blessing; and for God—global glory in worship. God's purpose revealed in promise to Abraham. Exploring God's purpose for the nations: Blessing to the nations described.
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Instructor
Phillip Nelson
SIM, Charlotte NC
Rev. Dr. Phillip Nelson pastored for over thirty years. He has served as a mission mobilizer for over ten years and, in addition, began teaching Perspective classes 25 years ago.
He is the husband of one wife and father of five saved adult children. He is a preacher and teacher of the Gospel for 45+ years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 12, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 2
The Story of His Glory
Exploring God's purpose for Himself: How God has been steadily unfolding a plan throughout all nations and generations to bring about His greater glory, ultimately drawing to Himself the worship of all the peoples. Passion and prayer for God's glory.
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Phil Luckett
Coppell TX
Most conversations with Phil at some point get around to football. That's because he is a recently retired referee for the National Football League. The NFL hired him in 1991 and in that capacity, he has officiated games from Tokyo to Europe. In 1997 he worked both the Super Bowl in New Orleans (Green Bay vs. New England) and the World Bowl in Barcelona, Spain (Barcelona vs. Frankfort). He brings this unique perspective to telling the world the story of God's Glory.
He is a certified, national & international instructor with UnveilinGLORY, speaking on the Glory of God (by means of light-hearted yet revealing 'Cat and Dog Theology') and on God's heart for all nations. He shares in settings as small as Sunday school, in large church-wide seminars, or in just-right sized Perspectives classes. Overseas ministry has been primarily in and around 7 major cities in Russia with the UnveilinGLORY material and conducting summer English camps. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 19, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 3
Your Kingdom Come
Exploring God's purpose regarding evil: How God has accomplished a defeat of evil powers in order to open a season of history in which the nations can freely follow Christ. The kingdom of God as the destiny of all history. Christ's mission seeks a hindering of evil to bring about a sign of the coming peace of the kingdom of God. Our prayers contend with evil in order to bring about the transformation of society with Christ's kingdom in view.
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Instructor
Eric Zander
the Belgian Evangelical Mission, Grand-Leez AK
Born and raised Belgian, in a post-Catholic secularized country, Eric was first trained as an Elementary school teacher, than at the Belgian Bible Institute and lately got his MTh at Spurgeon's College, London.
Eric and his wife Anne are committed to developing Christian Communities within their contemporary culture. Today, Eric leads several alternative expressions of church, in a local social network, among bikers, … Eric loves reflecting on contemporary culture and acting to impact it. He also loves motorcycle riding, rock music, hiking and good food. Eric and Anne have 3 children, Samuel (23), Déborah (21) and Axelle (16). They live in Gembloux, Belgium.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 26, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 4
Mandate for the Nations
Jesus shows great strategic interest in Gentiles; wise strategic focus by initiating a global mission on a few disciples among the Hebrew people. The Great Commission and the ways of God's sending in relational power. Dealing with the ideas of pluralism (all religions the same) and universalism (all persons saved).
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Ken Davidson
Heart Sounds International, Harper KS
Ken Davidson is co-founder of Heart Sounds International which exists to encourage the release of indigenous worship in the emerging church around the world. Ken graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with a Bachelor of Music degree and from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Masters of Arts in Theology and Biblical Studies. He is an ordained minster, music missionary, worship leader, audio engineer and videographer. He lives in Harper, KS with his wife Dana. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 2, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 5
Unleashing the Gospel
The first followers of Jesus: obedient in costly, foundational ways. The climactic act of the book of Acts is the freeing of the gospel to be followed by Gentiles without Jewish traditions as a requirement. A foundational act of God which speaks to the situations where the gospel is hindered today. Strategic suffering and apostolic passion.
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Mark Phillips
International Missions Board, Franklin KY
God has led my family to invest our lives sharing the gospel in one of the poorest, most non-Christian places on the face of the earth. Where we live, most people live on less than a dollar a day, two out of every five babies does not live to see its fifth birthday, and 99 percent of the people are Muslim. Our desire is to see the gospel resonate and bring wholeness among people who live lives with hunger, suffering, and fear as accepted norms. Our hope is to see Christ establish His Church in Songhai lands bringing Light into the darkness. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 9, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 6
The Expansion of the Christian Movement
The story of God's purpose continues relentlessly from Abraham's day until the present moment. An overview of the largest and the longest-running movement ever in history—the world Christian movement. How the gospel surged through the peoples and places of the world. Important insights for our own day.
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Instructor
Martin Winslow
Bethlehem Christian Academy, Arnold MO
Martin Winslow is the Pastor of Families and Missions at Canaan Baptist Church in St. Louis, Mo. With a passion for Christian education, church planting and the poor, Martin has co-founded five Christian schools (Bethlehem Christian Academy www.bcazambia.com). Each school includes a feeding program for orphans and impoverished children. Two schools are in Zambia and 3 are in the 10/40 window of West Africa. At each campus of BCA a church has been planted. Martin was married in 1998 to Amy and has five children, Noah, Anna, Emma, Laura and Nati. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 16, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 7
Eras of Mission History
The greatest explosion of growth ever has taken place in last 200 years in three "bursts" of activity. Why we could be in the final era of missions. The global harvest force comprised increasingly of non-Western missionaries.
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Howard Hermes Jr.
Glenpool OK
Howard graduated from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor and has a Master's from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He spent two years in Southeast Asia with the IMB. He currently owns his own business and is starting his own mobilization minisitry that integrates business with missions. He has been married for ten years to his wife, Amber, and they have one daughter, Jorja. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 23, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 8
Pioneers of the World Christian Movement
Today we anchor the race by continuing what others have begun. It's a day of finishing. All the more reason to learn the wisdom and the heart of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in earlier generations. Reading the writings of William Carey and other leaders to discern what these people have left to us. Exploring the contribution of women in missions throughout the centuries.
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Ed Pollasch
ReachGlobal, Rolla MO
Ed Pollasch, and wife Janet, have served the Lord in missions since 1996. Their passion and call is to see the gospel advance into unreached and unengaged peoples. They were part of a church planting team in Tanzania; coordinated a pastoral training and repatriation ministry with South Sudanese; and served as mobilizers and trained in the Middle East/North Africa region. Ed believes strongly in an equipping ministry to Majority World movement leaders. He is equally committed to teaching and training the US church to engage in global missions – “there is fit for anyone and everyone.” Ed is a student of mission history and gospel movements throughout the church age. He and Janet married in 1979 and are currently living in the St Louis area. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 2, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 9
The Task Remaining
God's pressed His purpose forward until the present hour of amazing opportunity. Understanding the concept of "unreached peoples" to assess the remaining task. Recognizing the imbalance of mission resources shapes strategic priorities. The basic minimal missiological achievement in every people group opens the way for working with God against every kind of evil so that the gospel of the kingdom is declared and displayed with clarity and power. The need and opportunity of urban mission.
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Curt Romig
Journey Bible Fellowship, Leander TX
God revealed the good news of Christ's death and resurrection for my sins when I was a child. In high school, God gave me a love for missions, geography, culture, and languages. Then in 2003 I took Perspectives, and God did some amazing work in my heart and mind through it. After a year of ministry in the Amazon Jungle and 4 years living in Central Asia working with Muslims, God led me back to my hometown of Wichita to serve as the Pastor of Evangelism and Missions at First Evangelical Free Church. My wife, Michelle, and I are filled with joy to be a part of God's work among all peoples! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 9, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 10
How Shall They Hear?
Culture and intercultural communication of the gospel. Communicating the gospel with relevance at the worldview level helps avoid syncretism (blending of cultural error with God?s truth) and also enables powerful movements of the gospel. Sensitive missionaries will look for ways that God has preserved or prepared people to hear the gospel, often finding redemptive analogies for God's truth.
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Doug Schaible
Ethnos360, Wichita KS
Doug & Cheryl Schaible were church planters among
the Solong people of Papua New Guinea from 1991-
1998. They were able to see believers raised up as a
result of learning the language and culture, building
relationships and teaching and translating the
Scriptures in the native language. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 23, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 11
Building Bridges of Love
The incarnation as a model of missionary humility. How missionaries can enter appropriate roles in order to form relationships of trust and respect to develop a sense of belonging, and thus to communicate with credibility for understanding. Explore the intricacy of identification in another culture. Explore the even greater complexity of presenting identity with integrity in a globalized, terrorized, pluralized world. Recognizing the dynamics of social structure in order to initiate growing movements of ongoing communication throughout the society.
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Michele Hershberger
Hesston KS
A prolific writer and speaker, Michele Hershberger teaches Bible and Youth Ministry at Hesston College, Hesston, KS. She has a keen interest in biblical hospitality and how that can impact missions. Her own missions experience includes a year teaching Bible at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 30, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 12
Christian Community Development
A survey of world need. Dynamic balance of evangelism and social action. Hope for significant transformation as a sign of Christ's Lordship by Christian community development. Exploring the charge that missionaries destroy instead of serve cultures. Healing the wounds of the world between the peoples.
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Gail Voth
Beautiful Feet, Choctaw OK
Through Gail's gifting of hospitality she has learned the importance of empowering people by listening to their stories. Listening to stories occurs in many aspects of her ministry; whether it's teaching in Beautiful Feet Boot Camp, maintaining relationships with missionaries, or building relationships with the refugee community in OKC. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 6, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 13
The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches
Look beyond institutional features of churches to understand churches as dynamic movements of Christ Himself being followed. Such a view of churches as organic, living things opens up the practicality of seeing them multiply rapidly as movements and also flourish in society bearing the fruit of social transformation. Churches as counter-communities, acting as salt and light, bringing change to their cultures. How movements multiply by connecting with entire families and larger social structures.
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Linda Bergquist
California Southern Baptist Convention, San Francisco CA
Linda Bergquist is a church planting missionary who has been catalyzing churches in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1996. She teaches adjunct at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and Fresno Pacific Seminary, both in California. Linda is the co-author of Church Turned Inside Out: A Guide for Designers, Refiners and Re-Aligners and Re-Aligners and The Wholehearted Church Planter: Leadership from the Inside Out. She also is the author of an Exponential e-book The Great Commission and the Rest of Creation. Bergquist is a regular blogger and conference workshop leader.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 13, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 14
Pioneer Church Planting
The hope of planting churches among unreached peoples. How the breakthrough of the gospel in an unreached people requires that the gospel be "de-Westernized". The difference of contextualizing the message, the messenger and the movement. Distinguish and appreciate people movements, church planting movements and insider movements.
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Leonie Kent
Shining Light International, Colorado Springs CO
Leonie's great joy is gathering and sharing the stories of God's unstoppable plan advancing among all peoples, everywhere! When not sipping chai in far flung places, or with refugees nearby, Leonie calls Colorado home, where she serves Global Partnership Development for Shining Light International, a humanitarian organization providing hope through education, training and development for a brighter future for northern Pakistan and beyond. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 20, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Lesson 15
World Christian Discipleship
What it means to integrate life for Christ's global purpose as a "'World Christian". Into the great story for His glory: a Person-driven life as a way of. pursuing a purpose-driven life. The basic practices of world Christians: going, sending, welcoming and mobilizing. The essential disciplines of World Christian discipleship: community, giving, praying and learning. Simplifying your lifestyle as if in "war-time". Exploring the practical ways of pursuing God's purpose. Business and mission. Short-term mission. Welcoming international visitors. Wisdom in working with local churches and in partnership with Christians in different parts of the world.
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Pam Arlund
All Nations, Kansas City MO
Pam is currently the Co-Editor of Perspectives 5th Edition and a member of All Nations. She lived in Central Asia for ten years, where she planted churches among three people groups, two of whom are Muslim. She earned an MA and PhD in Linguistics (i.e. Bible Translation) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published numerous books and articles in missions. She is most well known as “The Stick Figure Lady” for her popular book “Stick Figures Save the World.” b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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