Lincoln, NE
Spring 2015
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January 7, 2015 - April 29, 2015
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Movement…
Lincoln Perspectives Class is a 15 week class that
will change the way you view the world. From the cities and suburbs of America,
to the villages, rain forests and deserts of distant lands. Whether you are
single, married, student, homemaker, professional or retired, and whatever your
current engagement in the church or its ministries, you will delight to explore
God's heart to restore His Glory among All Nations,
ransoming His people from every tribe, language and culture! (Rev 5:9)
You are invited to be a part of this unique course: Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. An adventure of a lifetime; an adventure taking you deeper into the Bible then you've ever gone before. After this course, your life will never be the same again.
When: Wednesday evenings, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM - January 7th - April 29th, 2015
Where: Heritage Bible Church (meets at Back to the Bible facilities) 6400 Cornhusker Hwy Lincoln, NE 68507
Come, bring a friend, and visit any 2 classes for FREE !!
Know that you will have the opportunity to learn from 15 highly-regarded missions leaders and mentors. They will challenge and inspire you with their personal experiences that will open your eyes to see just how big God is and how much He desires that all might come to know Him.
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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
James Mason
Frontier Ventures, Perspectives Study Program, Albuquerque NM
James served as a pastor for 12 years before responding to a growing passion to see God's glory established among all peoples on earth. He is now on staff with Frontier Ventures in Pasadena, CA where he serves as the US Director for the Perspectives Study Program. James has been married to his wife Kelly for 29 years and they have 3 precious children. Their passion is to help every person, every church, every denomination, and every missions organization find their most strategic place in the completion of the Great Commission. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 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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Yvonne Huneycutt
Perspectives Global, Round Rock TX
Yvonne from Austin, Texas loves mobilizing Christians and entire churches to find and engage their God-designed role for participation in the completion of the Great Commission. Currently on staff with Perspectives Global, Yvonne's varied career experience includes the corporate world, local church ministry, mission ministry, and managing a non-profit organization. She has worked with the Perspectives movement for over 25 years both nationally and internationally. Her overseas field experience includes one year in Russia and travel in 40 nations. She holds a Doctor of Ministry in Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 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
Gene Daniels
Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR
Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym) b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 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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Duane Anderson
Christ For the City International, Omaha NE
Dr. Duane (Chip) Anderson is president of Christ For the City International (CFCI), a mission agency focused on urban ministry based in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Anderson came to CFCI after serving 18 years as a Christian community worker and missionary in Latin America.
Dr. Anderson has more than 30 years of experience in Latin American community development. As missionaries, he and his family immersed themselves in the culture.
From Costa Rica, Dr. Anderson traveled to other Latin American countries to help set up many community-impacting programs with churches and city government.
CFCI is an urban ministry and mission agency that works with churches, ministry organizations, businesses, government agencies, and educational resources to develop programs that will help communities meet local needs. CFCI works in 17 countries around the world. Over 60% of CFCI’s 539 workers are not North American.
One-third of CFCI’s programs are focused on child welfare issues.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 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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Mike D Schmidt
Global Friends Omaha, Omaha NE
Mike is the director of Operations for Global Friends Omaha, an evangelistic ministry reaching out to international students in Omaha. From 2012 to 2018 he served as an associate professor and director of the Intercultural Studies department at Grace University. Before coming to Grace, Mike served with his family in Niger for 18 years with SIM. His ministry experience includes church planting among different Muslim groups, overseeing food security ministries, giving leadership to a large mission hospital and discipling Nigerien church leaders. He did his undergraduate studies at Grace University, a ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary and a D. of Missiology at Biola University. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 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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Jenni Paul
Springfield MO
Jenni has served the Lord since 1984 in a multitude of ministry leadership positions. She especially enjoys beginning ministries and passing them on to others to grow, so she can start or help another ministry. Jenni obtained her Masters Degree in Intercultural Ministries in 2013 and was immediately invited to attend, instruct, and coordinate Perspectives courses. Currently, she works with her husband, Dr. Robert Paul, as a Focus on the Family Hope Restored Retreat and Conference Speaker, speaking into the lives of couples who want to invest into their marriage and family. Jenni has been married for 40 years and is blessed with four wonderful children, of whom, have blessed them with delightful spouses and a growing number of grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 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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Andrew Herbek
Perspectives, Omaha NE
God took this farm boy from the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and sent him to serve among an unreached people group in East Asia doing ethnographic research. God used this experience to shape Andrew into a mobilizer and sent him back to North America to equip the body of Christ back home to engage and participate with God in His global purpose. Andrew is a member of Perspectives and serves on the Curriculum Revision Team. He has a Masters of Divinity and a MA in Intercultural Studies, and has field experience in thirteen countries. His heart is that of an educator and discipler, and he desires is to see Christ named and known by all the peoples of the earth, so that Christ can be loved and obeyed within all the peoples of the earth. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 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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David Jackett
Sixteen:Fifteen, Lewisville TX
After spending 10 years as a professional firefighter/EMT / Fire Marshal in Fort Worth, TX, David left the fire service for full-time vocational ministry. He currently serves as the Director of Mobilization & Operations at Sixteen:Fifteen. David has led more than a dozen trips to Central America doing evangelism, medical and orphan care, firefighter training and church planting. He has helped his church and others develop missionary training and equipping programs and he has spoken to thousands of students and adults across the US and Central America about God’s global mission with a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 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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Jeff Adams
Missional Impact/Graceway, Kansas City MO
Jeff was Graceway’s lead pastor for 33 years, having spent the previous ten years pastoring in Latin America with his wife Cheryl and daughters Sarah and Rebekah. He continues on Graceway's team as Teaching Pastor. He shares his passion for the Word of God in English and Spanish at Graceway and as an international conference speaker. He holds a Ph.D from Trinity Theological Seminary. He enjoys the cultural and dining diversity of Kansas City and is an active supporter of Kansas City's active arts scene. Having traveled and ministered in approximately 70 countries he is an avid student of culture. He trains leaders in cultural competency through cultural immersion experiences in Paris and Amsterdam and is also a certified Paterson LifePlan facilitator, a powerful tool that he uses in equipping and coaching leaders b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 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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Sue Westrum
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Branson MO
Sue & her husband, Peter, have been with Wycliffe Bible Translators for 43 years. They worked with the Berik people in Indonesian New Guinea, and celebrated the dedication of the Berik New Testament with them in December 1993. They worked in Indonesian Borneo from 1997 to 2000. They serve now from their home in Branson, Missouri. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 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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Al Fadi
CIRA International, Queen Creek AZ
Brother Elijah
*** Lessons taught: 4 & 11 ***
* Missionary to Muslims
* Islamist – Researcher, Writer, and Blogger
* Co-Editor/Co-author/Translator
* Guest Lecturer/Speaker on Islamic Studies & Apologetics
* Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at numerous Bible colleges and Seminaries
* Invited guest speaker and trainer at churches and mission agencies
* Invited Guest Analyst on the topics of the Middle East & Radical Islam
* Host of the faith talk radio show, "Let Us Reason. A Christian-Muslim Dialogue with Al Fadi" on KPXQ 1360 AM [ http://soundcloud.com/let-us-reason ]
Elijah is a former Wahabbi Muslim from Saudi Arabia. He is a researcher, editor, writer, and
translator for numerous ministries, including "Answering Islam", “Desiring God”, “The Gospel
Coalition”, and “Jesus On Line”.
Elijah is the founder & director of an outreach training & equipping Ministry (The Center for
Islamic Research & Awareness – CIRA) which focuses on bringing awareness about Islam,
building bridges with Muslims, training on outreach and evangelism to Muslims (i.e.
immigrants, refugees, & international students), and to provide expert opinion and
consultations on issues related to Muslim evangelism, Academic training, Political Islam, &
Sharia Law.
From 2008 – 2013, Elijah was also involved as a co-editor, co-author and contributor of "The
Qur'an Dilemma" (English Book – Vol. 1) - a critical analysis book of the Qur'an. His
responsibilities included overseeing and managing TheQuran.com blog & social media.
Elijah holds a Masters in Engineering and an M.Div. in
Biblical Communications.
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 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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Pamela Franks
Embrace the Nations, Founder, in Omaha, NE www.embracethenations.com, Omaha NE
Pam began her call to missions in Guatemala, Central America. She led medical missions for a large Christian organization during a time of civil war in that country. After five years on the field, the family relocated to Omaha, NE. As Missions Director at Glad Tidings Church in Omaha since 1998, Pam has been able to share her passion to see Jesus lifted up among the nations and has built relationship with people from all over the world. As a Registered Nurse, she has used her experience to instruct healthcare professionals and other groups in cultural awareness. In 2009, Pam began a Christian non-profit called Embrace the Nations. The main focus of this ministry has been toward refugees living in the city who are from unreached parts of the world. Embrace the Nations exists to bring the gospel to refugees so they may know and glorify Jesus. We do this through empowering families, discipling cross-culturally and mobilizing the church toward prayer and action. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 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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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: Wednesday, April 8, 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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Eric Guthrie
Beautiful Feet, Choctaw OK
Dr. James Eric Guthrie is the Executive Director of Beautiful Feet, a missionary mobilization, training, and sending organization focused on the unreached and neglected people groups of the world. He has traveled to more than 40 countries and ministered among all of the major religious blocks. Dr. Guthrie was involved with a church planting movement in India that saw more than one million people swept into the Kingdom over fifteen years. He has a Doctor of Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and his dissertation was focused on missionary training. He has been married for 35 years. In his free time, Dr. Guthrie enjoys reading, collecting comic books, playing guitar, and listening to the blues. b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 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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Lincoln Murdoch
Step Up To Life, Omaha NE
Lincoln is the Executive Director of Step Up To Life which is a training and equiping ministry and one that distributes Step Up To Life literature around the world. Lincoln has served as a youth pastor, missions pastor, worship leader, unreached people group advocate, church planter, lead pastor and global networker. He has traveled to 30+ nations to serve, teach and encourage. He has particular experience in Central Asia.
Lincoln is also an accomplished endurance athlete and a two-time national champion triathlete who had been ranked as high as 6th in the world in his age group. He is a 3x Ironman finisher including the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon b
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Class Info
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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