introduction to INT 525

2. Stan, Jacqui, Carrie Meyer
Tree of Life Messianic Congregation

3. Introduce Yourself

4. One item you brought that says a lot about you

5. Cultural Artifacts

6. The Joy Luck Club, 1993

7. Outsourced 2006

8. Topic 7 Assignment

9. Topic 7: Living With a Christian Worldview
Based on all you have learned in the course readings and
assignments up to this point, write a 1,500-1,750-word essay
providing your perspective of ministry in a multicultural context.
You will address this in the three parts outlined below:

10. Topic 7: Living With a Christian Worldview
Combines Topics 1, 2, 3, & 4

11. Topic 7: Living With a Christian Worldview
• Pick a speci
fi
c society or culture you want to reach
• Write about cross-cultural ministry to that society
Can be a group in North American or overseas
Should be a non-Western community or Majority World

12. Examples of Majority World Communities
• Navajo Indian Nation
• Vietnamese society
• Hindu society in India
• Kurdish tribe in Northern Iraq
• Dani People in Irian Jaya
• Indigenous Hawaiian People

13. Part 1: Theological basis of missions
Part 1 (350-500 words)
Discuss the biblical and theological basis for cross-cultural
ministry in topic 1. Summarize what you learned from the "Biblical
Themes in Missions" assignment in topic 2.
350 - 500 words

14. Part 1: Theological basis of missions
1. Write a theology of missions: Explain what is the Missio Dei, or
mission of God from the Scriptures, and support your argument
with a good exegesis of 3 Biblical passages
350 - 500 words

15. Part 1: Theological basis of missions
1. Write a theology of missions: Explain what is the Missio Dei, or
mission of God from the Scriptures, and support your argument
with a good exegesis of 3 Biblical passages
2. Pick ONE Biblical theme in missions: Argue how that theme is a
part of the Mission of God. Support your argument using three
Scriptures. Discuss each one.
350 - 500 words

16. Part 2: Worldviews
Describe the worldviews and cultural dimensions of a
majority world society.
350 - 500 words

17. Part 2: Worldviews
1. Choose a majority world community or society. Describe the
society, its location, population, and the religions. Cite your
information with demographic sources.
350 - 500 words

18. Part 2: Worldviews
1. Choose a majority world community or society. Describe the
society, its location, population, and the religions. Cite your
information with demographic sources.
2. Describe
fi
ve distinct cultural di
ff
erences or worldview
di
ff
erences. You may use the worldview components described in
Hiebert, chapter 2. Or you may use Hofstede’s, Trompenaar’s, or
Hall’s cultural dimensions. But you need to identify the di
ff
erences
and explain them.
350 - 500 words

19. Part 3: Applied Ministry
1. Describe the implications of ministering in that cultural context.
2. Explain the challenges to ministry and engaging the gospel in
that cultural context.
3. Propose how you will present the gospel cross-culturally in that
cultural context. What strategy will you develop?
500 - 750 words

20. Topic 8 Assignment

21. Topic 8: Current Events Essay
Topic 5: Based on the Demographic Study
1. What is the cultural phenomenon or practice? Describe.
2. Where geographically is the cultural phenomenon or practice taking place? How does geography apply
historically and/or currently?
3. Why is this cultural phenomenon or practice acceptable or moderately acceptable in the culture where it is
found (i.e., the home culture)?
4. Why is the cultural phenomenon or practice unacceptable from a Christian perspective? Distinguish between
your personal cultural lens and a biblical lens.
5. What would be your approach to evangelism in response to the cultural phenomenon or practice if you were in
the context where it was being practiced?
6. How would you prepare a team under your leadership to work where this cultural phenomenon or practice was
taking place?
7. How would you disciple believers living in this context, considering the potential challenges arising from the
cultural paradigm?

22. Turabian 8th (9th ed)
• Footnotes or endnotes
• ibid. or full note
• Bibliography format
• Superscript, bracketed [1], are okay
• Turabian Headings

23. Ground Rules for Class Discussions

24. The Great Commission

25. The Missio Dei — The Mission of God
We participate in God’s Program

26. Mission — Latin, “To Send”
Sheliach — Hebrew, “one who is sent”

27. Shelach — to send
Sheliach — one who is sent
Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my
people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
(Exod 3:10 ESV)

29. The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which
Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they
worshiped him, but some doubted.
(Matthew 28:16–17 ESV)

30. God sends…
• Those who doubt
• Those who don’t have all the answers
• Those who are unprepared
• Those who do not have Mdiv from GCU!

31. When?

32. After 40 days of teaching
After the resurrection
Taught extensively
Messianic Prophecies

33. Where?

34. Mount of Olives
Kidron Valley
Temple

35. Who?

36. Jesus with eleven disciples

37. “Some Doubted”

38. What?

39. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And
behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
(Matt 28:18–20 ESV)

40. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority

41. Trinitarian Nature of
the Mission of God
The Father sent the Son
The Son sends the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit sends us

42. Chain of Authority
The Father imports authority to Son
Jesus imparted authority to Us

43. Raoul Wallenberg
1912 - 1945
Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary

45. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his
appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God.
(2 Corinthians 5:20, ESV)

46. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!

47. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples

48. How did Jesus make Disciples?

49. How did Jesus NOT make disciples?
• He did not start a mega-church
• He did not drop lea
fl
ets over Jerusalem, Samaria, and Judaea
• He did not start a radio program (although those are good)
• He did not start a self-help school

50. How did Jesus NOT make disciples?
• He spent three years
• With a few teachable people

51. what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses
entrust to faithful [people], who will be able to teach others also.
(2 Tim 2:2 ESV)

52. Discipleship
Principle

53. Discipleship
Principle

55. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos

56. ἔ
θνος - Ethnos
A group of persons united by kinship, culture, and common traditions.
Danker, Frederick. “ἔθνος”, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

57. Gospel is supposed to cross
cultural-boundaries

58. Gospel becomes incarnate in the
cultures it reaches

59. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and
Samaria and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

60. Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
Ends of Earth
Acts 1:8

61. I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from
every ethnos, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing
before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with
palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice,
“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the
Lamb!”
(Rev 7:9–10 ESV)

62. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them

63. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them

64. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a
worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the
word of truth.
(2 Tim 2:15 ESV)

65. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them
7. Sending them

66. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
(Matt. 28:19 ESV)

67. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never
heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
And how are they to preach unless they are sent?
(Rom 10:14–15 ESV)
Part of the Mission of God is recruiting and training God’s people

68. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them
7. Sending them
8. I am with you always…

69. Trinitarian Nature of Missio Dei
• Father sends Jesus
• Jesus send the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit sends us

70. Empowered by the Holy Spirit
• We are empowered to preach the gospel
• The gospel message is empowered
• The hearers are empowered to receive the gospel