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Abilene, TX // S19
Cohort 2019
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You Were MADE FOR MORE!Use what's in you to bless the world around you!
Perspectives is a 15 week life and learning opportunity that will change the way you view the world around you. In it, you will have your eyes opened to the heart and purpose of God, and how you can take part in His work all over the world, from the urban streets of America to the rain forest and deserts of distant lands. A fantastic array of pastors, theologians, international missiologists and mobilizers 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. Whether you are single, married, a student, a homemaker, a professional or retired, Perspectives will bless and challenge your life and direction.
Class Enrollment Levels:
Certificate Level: $250 Credit Level: $500 / 3 credit hours (Undergraduate & Graduate) High School Dual Enrollment Credit: $500 / 3 credit hours
The following seminaries, universities & colleges have accepted the Perspectives course through a transfer credit from Trinity International University or Excelsior College in the DFW Area. **Each student should take the syllabus to their Academic Advisor to see what the course will transfer as**
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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
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: Monday, January 14, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Blu Tidwell
Brownwood TX
Originally from West Texas, Blu became a follower of Jesus at nine years old. He and his wife, Darbi, served more than a decade in Zambia, Africa-first with the International Mission Board and later helping to start an orphanage.
Blu & Darbi have three children - Caedmon (15), Cambree (13), and Cason (11). In 2018, they felt God calling them back to Texas to minister to their own people. Blu currently lives in Brownwood, Texas, where he runs his family's construction business and serves as youth and music pastor at Rocky Creek Baptist Church. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 21, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Lesson 3 Video Instruction
Redlands CA
Jeff Lewis b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Lesson 4 Video Instruction
Glendale CA
John Lo b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 4, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Lesson 5 Video Instruction
Charlotte NC
Phillip Nelson (pictured) and Steve Hawthorne b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 11, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Lesson 6 Video Instruction
Austin TX
Yvonne Huneycutt (pictured) and Scott Sunquist b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 18, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 7 Video Instruction
Kansas City MO
Mary Ho (pictured) and Andrew Pearce b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 25, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 8 Video Instruction
Fayetteville AR
Todd Ahrend (pictured) and Mary Ho b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 4, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 9 Video Instruction
Salt Lake City UT
Bruce Koch (pictured) and Todd Ahrend b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 18, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Brian
Frankston TX
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 25, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 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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Lesson 11 Video Instruction
West Hills CA
Colleen Wong b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 1, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 12 Video Instruction
Burbank CA
Mike Brown (pictured) and Jim Ardill b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 8, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 13 Video Instruction
Kansas City MO
Pam Arlund (pictured) and Bobby Gupta b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 15, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Instructor
Pete Errington
Beyond, Plano TX
Pete is the Pre-Field Coordinator for new missionaries joining Beyond, an organization completely focused on launching movements of disciples among unreached peoples. Together with others in the 24:14 network, Beyond is pursuing a God-sized vision of movement teams in place among every remaining unreached people group by 2025. Pete and his wife have been mobilizing missionaries since 2000, and are passionate about helping every disciple make disciples. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 22, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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Lesson 15 Video Instruction
Stillwater OK
Bryan Padgett (pictured) and Richard Coleman b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 29, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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