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Spring 2013
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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
Mitchel Lee
Grace Community Church, Ellicott City MD
Mitchel is a Maryland native and holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Master of Arts in Biblical Exegesis from Wheaton College Graduate School. He is also a graduate of the 36th class of the Arrow Leadership Program.
Joining Grace initially as a teaching pastor in 2012, Mitchel has served as Lead Pastor since August 2016. Prior to Grace, he has served in a variety of church contexts ranging from South Korea to Chicago to Maryland. His passion is to be a bridge-builder between generations and ethnicities both in the US and internationally through leadership development and church-planting. Mitchel’s first book, Even If, was released August 2021 with Waterbrook Multnomah.
Mitchel is husband to Sarah and a father to Calvin, Noah, Benjamin, Beatrice, and Owen. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 7, 2013
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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Kevin Sampson
Community Fellowship Church, West Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 14, 2013
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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Gregg Okesson
Wilmore KY
I teach at Asbury Theological Seminary in the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism. For 13 years I was a missionary in East Africa, involved in church planting and theological education. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013
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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Dave Davis
The Evangelical Alliance Mission, Carol Stream IL
Second generation missionary kid who grew up in Pakistan. Served in Pakistan 1971-1989 and again 2007-2008. Work at TEAM mobilization office in Wheaton, IL. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013
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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Dave McDowell
West Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 4, 2013
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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Ray Prigodich
Discipleship Director, CROSSVILLE TN
Ray Prigodich served as a missionary for 17 years with WorldVenture in Uganda, Kenya, and the Philippines. He also served for 15 years on the missions faculty of Denver Seminary. In addition, he co-founded Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine and served for a number of years as the school’s academic dean. Before retiring in 2008, Ray was on the home office staff of TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission), serving first as Placement Coordinator and then as Director of New Member Development. He recently completed six years of service as a member of the board of directors of InterAct Ministries. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 11, 2013
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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Robert Gallagher
Wheaton IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 18, 2013
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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Robert Nordstrom
OMF, Wheaton IL
Robert works in partnership with local churches and campus ministry organizations in Chicago to reach and disciple international students (with a focus on East Asian students). This involves evangelism and discipling, preparing returnees, and developing training.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
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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Instructor
Marvin Newell
Niles MI
Dr. Marvin J. Newell is Executive Director Emeritus of Alliance for the Unreached, and Ambassador at Large of Missio Nexus. Previously he served as a missionary in Papua, Indonesia, a mission administrator, and a professor of missions. He is the author of five mission related books. Marv and his wife Peggy have been involved in missions for over 44 years.
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013
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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Gord Nickerson
, Carol Stream IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 11, 2013
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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Jim Plueddemann
Moody Bible Institute, West Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
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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Bethany Dudley
Chicago IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 1, 2013
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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Instructor
Charlie Davis
retired TEAM, Winfield IL
I grew up in Pakistan, lived and worked in Venezuela for approximately 20 years, and more recently led a global mission agency for 12 years. I'm married to Kris, with three grown children, and four grand children. In 2015 InterVarsity published my book, Making Disciples Across Cultures. b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
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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Bill Oberlin
Carol Stream IL
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 15, 2013
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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JR
TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission), Wheaton IL
Jim was born and raised as an MK in Korea and participated in numerous short-term trips since college. He spent 13 years in Venezuela working primarily in MK ministry and continues to serve with TEAM, a mission agency which helps churches send missionaries to establish reproducing churches. Currently he is the Director of Northeast Asia, partnering with Korean churches and others to engage the region.
Jim met his wife, Kimberly, at Dallas Theological Seminary. When he took Perspectives in 2011, he did his integrated project on the "Bell" unreached minority people group of East Asia. Since then he has been blessed to speak at Perspectives classes in Illinois, Michigan and Tennessee. Jim loves teaching Lesson #15 since, as the "closer" for the course, he guides the class in considering the "now what?" aspect of applying the course along with others from their own church and takes a closer look at what it really means for a church to "send." He and Kimberly are enjoying life with two children at home and one in college. Jim likes to play the sax and travel internationally to see more of God's world first-hand! b
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Class Info
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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