2. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
Lesson 7 – Ryan Emis, Center for Mission Mobilization

4. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
Lesson 7 – Ryan Emis, Center for Mission Mobilization

5. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement
Lesson 7 – Ryan Emis, Center for Mission Mobilization

6. Finishing
…They order their steps with strategic simplicity, not hesitating nor hurrying, but tenaciously continuing to do whatever it takes to finish the task God has given them.

7. Reformation: Martin Luther
1517 AD

8. 275 years
1792
1517

9. William Carey: “The Father of Modern Missions”
““Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Matt. 28:19-20

11. Three Eras of Modern Missions
First Era
“The Coastlands”
1910
Edinburgh Missions Conference
1792
Mainly European Sending Base
Haystack Prayer Meeting
ABCFM

12. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Is. 54:2-3
DISCUSSION QUESTION: Look carefully at the verse in Isaiah 54:2-3, then consider Carey’s adage “Expect great things (from God), attempt great things (for God).” Explain the connection there, and what this might mean for us today. Are there other scriptures that can support such a connection?
DISCUSSION QUESTION: Given Carey’’s scope of ministry activities, how has the 21st century church in the west had a similar or different understanding of what the focus of mission activity should be?

13. Three Eras of Modern Missions
First Era
Second Era
1865
1910
Edinburgh Missions Conference

14. Hudson Taylor: Missionary to China
“Kindly placing his hand on my shoulder, the minister replied ‘Ah, my boy, as you grow older you will get wiser than that. Such an idea would do well in the days when Christ Himself was on earth, but not now.’ I have grown older since then, but not wiser. I am more than ever convinced that if we were to take the direction of our Master and the assurances He gave to His first disciples more fully as our guide, we should find them to be just as suited to our times…”
Hudson Taylor “The Call to Service

15. Hudson Taylor: Missionary to China

16. Three Eras of Modern Missions
First Era
Second Era
Edinburgh Missions Conference
1865
1910
Period of Transition

17. Four Stages of Missions Activity
Stage One:
Pioneering Stage
Missionary
Church

18. Four Stages of Missions Activity
Stage Two:
Parenting Stage
Missionary
Church

19. Four Stages of Missions Activity
Stage Three:
Partnership Stage
Missionary
Church

20. Four Stages of Missions Activity
Stage Four:
Participation Stage
Missionary
Church

21. Three Eras of Modern Missions
First Era
Second Era
Edinburgh Missions Conference
Period of Transition
1865
1910
Pioneer Parent Partnership Participation
Pioneer

22. The “E” Scale E-0: E-1: E-2 E-3 No cultural barriers, revival
Perhaps the Church itself
Church / Cross-cultural barrier
Church / 2+ Cross-cultural barriers

23. “It is clear that Jesus is referring primarily neither to geography nor walls of prejudice when he lists Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth… It seems likely he is taking into account cultural distance as the primary factor.”
- Ralph Winter - The New Macedonia

24. Three Eras of Modern Missions
First Era
Second Era
“The Inlands”
Edinburgh Missions Conference
1865
1910
Mainly North American Sending Base
Student Volunteer Movement
Prayer: Student and Women’s Mission Societies

27. DISCUSSION QUESTION: Concerning the 4 stages of mission activity, what are some of the difficulties or struggles the sending church in the west may have with this? In light of this, how strategic is (or what benefits may come from) short-term missions?
DISCUSSION QUESTION: How might the E-scale help in determining the approach your church must make with regard to its part in completing the Great Commission?

28. Three Eras of Modern Missions
Second Era
Third Era
1934
Edinburgh Missions Conference II
1980

29. Cameron Townsend
“There is no greater missionary than the Bible in the native tongue. It never needs a furlough and it is never considered foreign.”

30. Donald McGavran
“The individual does not think of himself as a self-sufficient unit, but a part of the group. His business affairs, his children’s marriages, his personal problems, or the difficulties he has with his wife are properly settled by group thinking. Peoples become Christian as their group-mind is brought into the lifegiving relationship to Jesus as Lord.” - from Bridges of God.

31. Three Eras of Modern Missions
Third Era
Second Era
“Unreached People Groups”
Edinburgh Missions Conference II
1934
1980
Concerts of Prayer, College Campuses
Non-western and Specialized Sending Base
Campus Crusade for Christ, InterVarsity, etc

32. Concerts of Prayer, College Campuses
Mission Frontiers Magazine
Jan/Feb 99: Winds of Renewal: Could this be another SVM?
Mar/Apr 04: Real Fools for God: Young Adults and Missionary Prep.

33. DISCUSSION QUESTION: What might be some cultural factors that we share that can taint our approach to reaching internationals here or in our missions activity around the world?

34. Theological Education by Extension
Ralph Winter - a 5th Man?
Theological Education by Extension
(TEE)