Kingdom of God, Mission of God

1. INT-460 Christianity & Culture | Topic 2 Part 1
The Mission of God

2. Review

3. Topic 1
1. What is culture?

4. Topic 1
1. What is culture?
2. What are cultural texts?

5. Topic 1
1. What is culture?
2. What are cultural texts?
3. How do you exegete cultural texts?

6. Topic 1
1. What is culture?
2. What are cultural texts?
3. How do you exegete cultural texts?
4. How do you think theologically about culture?

7. Topic 2
1. Mission of God & Culture
2. Relevance of the Christian message
3. Reading culture using demographic studies

8. Kingdom of God
And the Missio-Dei

9. So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord,
will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He
said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons
that the Father has
fi
xed by his own authority. But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
(Acts 1:6–8 ESV)

10. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went,
behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said,
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?
This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will
come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
(Acts 1:10–11 ESV)

11. 1. Jesus will return to same place

12. Jesus’ Ascension
Jesus’ Return
Right Hand of the Father

13. 1. Jesus will return to same place
2. Jesus will establish political kingdom

14. Questions: What happened??!
a. God changed His mind?
b. Israel “missed their chance”. Too late now!!
c. Disciples totally got it all wrong. It was always future.

15. Kingdom of God
Acts 1:8
1. Kingdom of God is Not Yet
• KOG is future
• KOG will be the RESTORATION of creation (Act IV)
• KOG will come when Jesus returns
• KOG will be literal
• KOG will be political
• KOG will be Global

16. Kingdom of God
Acts 1:8
1. Kingdom of God is Not Yet
2. Kingdom of God is Now
• KOG is spiritual
• KOG is everywhere God reigns
• God is CURRENT process of Restoration

17. Theological Views of the KOG
Acts 1:8
1. Amillennial — Kingdom is spiritual & now

18. Theological Views of the KOG
Acts 1:8
1. Amillennial — KOG is spiritual & now
2. Postmillennial — KOG is political, future, we
need to build it.

19. Theological Views of the KOG
Acts 1:8
1. Amillennial — KOG is spiritual & now
2. Postmillennial — KOG is political & future.
3. Premillennial — KOG is spiritual & political. God
is restoring Creation & will one day restore creation

20. Mission of God & Culture

21. Missio Dei — the Mission of God
It is God’s mission (not ours) that we participate in by becoming God’s instruments for
the process of RESTORATION (Act IV)

22. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
(Acts 1:6–8 ESV)

23. Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
Ends of Earth
Cultural Boundaries

24. 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 28:19–20 ESV)