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Littleton, CO F19
Fall 2019
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Want to be a Part of God's Story? Join us on this journey to discover God's heart and purpose - a purpose in which you have a part to play. It may be sending, welcoming, praying, supporting, and yes - even going. Discovering this purpose is valuable, and perhaps crucial, for any Christian.
What is Perspectives?
Perspectives will take you on a 15-week journey (with a celebration finale), looking in-depth at the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic aspects of God’s global plan to reconcile every nation, tribe, people, and tongue to Himself. You will learn from 15 Different Instructors over 15 weeks. All of them excellent and all of them passionate about this course. They will challenge and inspire you with their wisdom and experience, opening your eyes to a deeper vision of God’s mercy, greatness and love. This course is recommended for every follower of Christ who wants to become more like Jesus!
WHEN
Monday Evenings
August 19 - December 2
6:15-9:15pm
WHERE
The Rock Community Church
12472 W. Belleview Ave
Littleton, Co 80120
COST
Key Reading and Certificate Level - $250 Credit - $485 Early Bird and family discount available
What others are saying about the course:
Pastors
I'm enthusiastic about Perspectives because my life and our church are devoted to spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. God means to be known and enjoyed by every tribe tongue and nation (Rev. 5:9). Perspectives has been essential in mobilizing hundreds of lay people in our church to be World Christians. Rev. John Piper, Senior Pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis MN, Author
Perspectives is a dynamic experience that will forever change your view of whatGod is doing in the world. It smashed my stereotypes and reordered my priorities in world evangelization after three decades of ministry. You may never read your Bible or church history the same way again!Rev. Matt Welde - International Evangelist, Presbyterian Church (USA), USCWM Minister-at-Large
Perspectives Students and Alumni
I have not seen a class like this that thoroughly explains how God has been at work through the ages, not just during biblical times; and the incredible insight of many people who have a heart for God and his purposes.
I truly feel the writers and instructors have given us God's Perspective of his kingdom and his redemptive plan.
It changed the way I view life, people, the world, Jesus, the Bible, myself.
There were articles that were very thought provoking, to give a totally different view of Christ's plan and purpose.
The course does not merely add to the intellect but also calls the heart to obedience.
When Christians develop a passion for God, they will want to carry out the mandate for the nations, so that worshipers from every people group will magnify and praise God.
To be a world Christian, it is a must…foundational information.
I came into this class expecting one thing, but what I have got out of this class is much more than what I could have imagined.
Pray with us! We are asking God to transform hearts through this course towards greater engagement in God's plan for the nations both locally and around the world!
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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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Brian Hogan
Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR
Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him.
From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 19, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Gerald Robison
To All Nations, Madison AL
Dr Robison presents Lessons #1 or #2 with a fast-paced, humor-filled interaction that leaves students in a state of joyful conviction, new understanding and primed with motivation.
Gerald authored and co-authored 10 books:
"Cat and Dog Theology" being the best-known.
He has had an international ministry of teaching and training Bible teachers and pastors stretching over 40 years and over 24 countries, including Australia, Netherlands, the Middle East, parts of Africa, Europe and the former Soviet countries.
He is the Founding President of "To All Nations", Vice-President for UnveilinGLORY, and often speaks at conferences around the nation and the world. He is also a strategist, coach and mentor to churches and pastors through "Issachar Initiative".
Dr Robison has taught in over 24 countries and worked with "Walk Thru the Bible Ministries in many of those for the past 40 years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, August 26, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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
Keith Swartley
Encountering the World of Islam, Highlands Ranch CO
Keith E. Swartley has had a heart for Muslims since first befriending them in the old town of Mombasa, Kenya in 1983. Since then Keith has enjoyed learning from and sharing with Muslims in Turkey, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Republic of George, Ukraine and Moldova, the United Kingdom, and Philadelphia. Keith hopes to one day retire in the Muslim world, but, until then, he plans to continue motivating Christians to reverently and gently share the love of Christ with Muslims around the corner or across the globe.
Keith and his wife Ethel, an English as a Second Language professional, have two daughters. In addition, their family has often included international students from Asia and Latin America whom they have hosted for up to two years.
From 1993 until 2002, Keith was on staff with the U.S. Center for World Mission outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Keith worked with churches and universities training and leading short-term mission teams. One of Keith’s major projects since 1992 has been the development of Encountering the World of Islam, a 12 lesson sister course to Perspectives. After September 11, 2001, the course became his main ministry focus. Since 2007, Encountering the World of Islam has been a ministry of Pioneers.
As a part of Keith’s ministry he often teaches in Encountering the World of Islam and Perspectives on the World Christian Movement courses. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 2, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Instructor
Brian Post
ELIC, Fort Collins CO
Brian is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church who served for 30 years in local church ministry as a youth worker and lead pastor before becoming a mobilizer for the English Language Institute China (and 12 other countries). His undergrad is in International Relations with an emphasis in the Middle East. His Masters is in Theology with an emphasis in Church History. He served for 5 years with World Venture as a pastor of an international church in Luzern, Switzerland and as a middle school and high school teacher of history, geography and Bible at the Black Forest Academy in Germany. He is a guitarist and mandolinist and a teacher of those, a history geek, a linguist and a communicator. He has been married 37 years and has four children and a grandson. He loves personal fitness, old movies and good coffee. He is deeply committed to the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations and to the task of equipping people to find their part in that story. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 9, 2019
Time: 1:00 AM to 1:00 AM
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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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DawnEllen Jacobs
Hideaway TX
DawnEllen Jacobs is a faculty mentor and academic consultant. Recently retired from 28 years at California Baptist University, she began serving on short term service teams in 1998 and has done over 20 projects to date. She has a passion for discipling others with a desire to share the gospel with the nations. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 16, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Bruce R
Gen12 Ministries , Yulee FL
Bruce is the Founder and CEO of Gen12 Ministries as well as a former Perspectives Regional Director for the Rocky Mountain Region.
Gen12, located in Jacksonville, Florida, is a missions mobilizing ministry that focuses on teaching and training churches and businesses on how they can better use their resources for God's Kingdom, as well as enabling them to run strategic trips to connect directly with missionaries all over the world, with an emphasis on training pastors and missionaries within the 10/40 Window. He has had the privilege to share the Gospel in 38+ countries and loves experiencing and learning about new cultures. He currently sits on the board of an orphanage with plans to expand into unreached areas of the globe. Beyond his heart for missions, teaching, and traveling, Bruce loves scuba diving and spending time with his wife enjoying the outdoors. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 23, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Denise Wynn
Mobilization with the Go Team of South Fellowship, Littleton CO
Denise "DG" Wynn is the new Director of Publishing at William Carey Library Publishers, which publishes the Perspectives books. She is an author, and a former field missionary with a heart for God's global purpose, spreading His love to the ends of the earth, and empowering the next generation of goers to complete the task. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, September 30, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Bentley Tate
Asia Heartbeat, Littleton CO
Dr. Bentley Tate is a medical doctor with a long-standing interest in missions especially in the country of Myanmar in SE Asia. He is Director of the Emergency Department at his hospital in Fort Morgan, Colorado. He cofounded Asia Heartbeat in 2003 and serves as President. He holds both an M.D. and an M.Div. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 7, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Jon Hardin
Frontiers, Highlands Ranch CO
Dr. Jon Hardin is the National Communications Specialist for Frontiers. He has served in full-time missions work for over 25 years. Jon regularly speaks and teaches in churches, conferences, and various training events around the world--he has taught over 35,000 Perspectives students. Jon has a passion for seeing local churches and ordinary Christians step into strategic roles in the global missions enterprise.
Jon is an ordained minister, holds a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam, and did post-graduate studies at the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague. He is also a graduate of Denver Seminary. Jon is a CPA and prior to going into full-time ministry he worked for IBM Corporation for nine years. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 14, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Amy Law
Cody WY
Amy has a passion to mobilize young people and churches to pray, give and go to foster disciple making movements among unreached people groups. She has served with Youth with a Mission (YWAM), Caleb Project, Teen Mania, La Canada Presbyterian church and supervised over 40 Perspectives courses. Leading youth teams to Yemen, India, Turkey, Malaysia, China and Thailand has helped her training remain practical and reproducible, as she continues to train young people in YWAM and churches in Perspectives. Amy and her husband raise cattle in Wyoming and home educate one son, while their other son attends high school.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Maria P.
Central Asia, Colorado Springs CO
Maria P. has over 30 years of ministry experience. For the past 28 years her ministry has focused on unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window. She has held leadership roles in both the field and at headquarters. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, trainings, and international events. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, October 28, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Andre Houssney
Horizons International, Boulder CO
André was born in Beirut, Lebanon during that country's civil war between Muslims and Christians. The son of a Lebanese father and an American mother, André was raised with an understanding of the complexities of cross-cultural communication.
His ministry teaching and training with Horizons International has taken him to over 40 countries including four years spent ministering in his native Lebanon. Andre and has three boys; Elias, Silas and Ezra.
Andre is also working on agricultural and business projects to establish the viability of the national churches and their missions programs. These Fair Trade businesses like Zambeezi and The Zambian Soap Company create funds to support native missionaries to Muslim regions.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Kevin King
International Project, New York NY
Kevin King is the President of International Project, an organization that focuses on church planting among unreached people groups in ethnic communities and on campus. He launched the Equip program, which focuses on training cross-cultural church planters who will start simple multiplying churches. Kevin’s vision is to see a movement of churches started among unreached people groups starting with diaspora communities here and spreading to least evangelized countries. You can learn more about their ministry at www.internationalproject.org b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 11, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Joseph Shane Bennett
Healing Nations , Rye CO
Shane helps Christians love Muslims and Muslims love Jesus. He has served in missions mobilization since 1987, recruiting, training, and sending short term research teams. He's been on teams in Bangkok, Bombay, and Turkey and he's lived among Muslim migrants in Europe.
Shane writes a weekly email called Muslim Connect that helps Christians think about Muslims the way God does and love them like Jesus does.
He works with Healing Nations and he and his family live in southern Colorado.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 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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Jonathan Nowlen
Light Streams Ministries, Fayetteville AR
Jonathan Nowlen grew up as a missionary kid in multiple countries and served in YWAM for 18 years. At a young age he gained a strong international perspective and a heart for the nations. Over the last 25 years he has led mission efforts and kingdom enterprises in over 60 nations with an emphasis on leadership and community development. Jonathan is passionate about marketplace ministry and is focused on equipping believers to thrive in their vocations and advance the Kingdom of God.
Jonathan is also the author of the books titled 'Faith and Five Dollars', 'Outreach Matters - 17 Principles for Successful Missions' and 'Managing Your Metron' - A practical theology of work, mission and meaning.' b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, November 25, 2019
Time: 6:15 PM to 9:15 PM
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