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God's Word. God's Work.
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(125 ratings)
5,542 students

God's Word. God's Work.

A Biblical Basis for Missions
Created byDavid Olson, Edward Ridge, Don Barger, Elenir Ridge
Last updated 12/2015
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the Biblical basis and mandate for mission and ministry. This understand should be applied in all areas of Christian ministry; specifically in the area of cross-cultural missions.
  • Evaluate one's motives, priorities, and actions in cross-cultural ministries. Students should apply this in an evaluation of one's current and future ministry endeavors.
  • Revise one's missions engagements in light any understanding of scriptural principles and mandates.
  • Implement a missions strategy that is firmly founded in Scripture.
  • Incorporate Biblical principles in all missions strategies and actions.

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 55m total length

  • Introduction1:16

    This segment gives a quick overview of the course, God's Word, God's Work.

  • Biblical Panoramic: Creation to Church5:55

    In this segment, Ed gives a panorama of the Bible by telling the story, "Creation to the Church".

  • Abraham3:23

    The story of Abraham is told to show that God desires a close relationship with all people.

  • Psalm 674:46

    In this study we look at Psalm 67 and learn God's desire is for all the peoples of the earth to be glad and praise Him.

  • Isaiah6:48

    This story in the life of the prophet Isaiah declares the holiness of God and God's desire to use people to declare His message.

  • Jonah6:40

    Jonah is the story of a reluctant prophet. This is a powerful story which teaches us that God's love and forgiveness is for all peoples.

  • Lord of the Harvest4:54

    This story teaches the importance of prayer as related to the sending out of servants into His harvest field.

  • Great Commission4:27

    This story of the great commission declares the last words that the risen Lord declared to His followers before ascending into heaven.

  • Paul and Barnabas Sent Out3:20

    In this session we glean truths from the story of the church in Antioch and the call of Paul and Barnabas.

  • Lystra6:19

    The story of Paul and Barnabas shows us that as we declare God's word we often face opposition.

  • Conclusion1:11

    This session summarizes the course and the lessons that we have gleaned from God's stories.

  • Closing Story6:41

Requirements

  • Students will not need any special materials to participate in this course.

Description

This course, "God's Word, God's Work" gives a Biblical overview of missions and ministry. The course examines various Biblical texts to help the participant evaluate his or her own ministry against God's Word. The course utilizes Bible Stories from both the Old and New Testaments as the primary teaching method. The course is designed to allow the participant to go at his or her own pace. This course is designed to help those involved in ministry to evaluate their motives, methods and ministries against the background of the Bible. Those who want to develop a ministry or mission program that is Biblically based would benefit from this course.

Who this course is for:

  • The course will benefit church leaders who are planning mission and ministry programs in their local church.
  • The course will benefit leaders of short term mission teams as they make preparations to minister cross culturally.
  • This course is for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of what the Bible says about missions and ministry.
  • The course will also benefit anyone who is interested in the use of Bible Storying as a teaching and learning tool.

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