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Reality Media — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:52:00 +0000

1 Jonathan R. Wilson, Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry, and Mission in Practice (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006), 5.

2 David Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll, NY.: Orbis, 1991), 390.

3 International Missionary Council of 1952, quoted in Seamands 160.

4 John Corrie, ed., Dictionary of Mission Theology (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Books, 2007), 397.

5 John Stott, The Contemporary Christian: Applying God’s Word to Today’s World, 325.

6 David Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll, NY.: Orbis, 1991), 390. Quoted in Darrel L. Gruder, ed., Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), 5.

7 Darrel L. Gruder, ed., Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans), 4.

8 David Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll, NY.: Orbis, 1991), 391.

9 Ralph Moore, How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow (Ventura, Ca.: Regal, 2009), 58.

10 Ralph Moore, How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow (Ventura, Ca.: Regal, 2009), 43.

11 Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 17.

12 Scherer 1987:84 as quoted in David Bosch, Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll, NY.: Orbis, 1991), 391.

13 Britt Merrrick, “Mission” (Missio Christi, 2009).

14 Donald G. Bloesch, The Church: Sacraments, Worship, Ministry, Mission (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Books), 34.

15 David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity… and Why it Matters (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), 48.

16 Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church (Peabody, Mass.: Henrickson) 209.)

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Reality Media — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:46:13 +0000

“Do you imagine that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to worldlings and telling them that they “may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their personal Savior” while they are wedded to their idols and their hearts are still in love with sin? If I do so, I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel, insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. ” - A.W. Pink

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Reality Media — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:22:55 +0000

"Clear Christology will inform our best missiology, which in turn will leads to the most fruitful ecclesiology."-16

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:52:29 +0000

“Among young outsiders, 84% say they personally know at least one committed Christian. Yet only 15% thought the lifestyles of those Christ followers were significantly different from the norm.”-15

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:51:36 +0000

“Evangelical theology, from my perspective, insists that the church has a fundamentally spiritual mission; yet this is a mission that is realized not in withdrawal or detachment from the afflictions and the conflicts of humanity but in the very midst of these afflictions.” –Donald Bloesch-14

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:51:19 +0000

The church is: The people of God, called to God, and sent by God, for the glory of God, to meet the needs of the world with God.-13

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:47:25 +0000

“In its mission, the church witnesses to the fullness of the promise of God’s reign and participates in the ongoing struggle between that reign and the powers of darkness and evil.”-12

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:47:02 +0000

“The Christian mission is thus to act out in the whole life of the whole world the confession that Jesus is Lord of all.” –Lesslie Newbigin-11

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:46:53 +0000

More than 25 Million people in the United States have never heard the Gospel.-10

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Reality Media — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:46:32 +0000

The United States is currently the fifth largest mission field in the world.-9