1. Feet first in the mission of God Because it matters…

2. Beautiful feet!

3. The good news is for everyone “The scripture says… ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved…’” (10:11,13).

4. How beautiful are the feet! “But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him? And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’” (10:14-15).

5. The Book of Romans…

6. …a missionary tract

7. Spain matters…

8. “…from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the good news of Christ” (15:19).

9. Spain matters… “I make it my ambition to proclaim the good news, not where Christ has already been named…” (15:20).

10. Spain matters… “…I go to Spain…” (15:24).

11. Scherer “Mission as applied to the work of the church means the specific intention of bearing witness to the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ at the borderline between faith and unbelief.…” (Scherer:37).

12. Scherer “The entire life of the church has a missionary purpose, to be sure. But the heart of mission is always making the gospel known where it would not be known without a special and costly act of boundary-crossing witness” (Scherer:37).

13. Scherer Spain matters… because there remains a borderline between faith and unbelief… Spain matters… because there remains a borderline between faith and unbelief…

14. One-third of the world…

15. Afar people

16. 1,640,000 in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti 0.00% Christian

17. Afar people 422,000 in Eritrea

18. Buryat people

19. 422,000 persons in Russia, Mongolia and China The largest unreached people group in Siberia…

20. Buryat people 255,000 persons in Russian Republic of Buryatia.05% Christian

21. Oraon people

22. 4 million persons in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh The seventh largest tribal group in India

23. Oraon people 3.6 million persons in India Approximately 300,000 Lutherans – and interest in reaching Oraons elsewhere

24. Oraon people

25. Rome matters…

26. “I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my journey…” (15:24).

27. India Missions Association

30. COMIBAM Mission Statement: Ver a la iglesia iberoamericana como una fuerza misionera. To see the Iberoamerican Church as a missionary force!

31. COMIBAM

33. Jerusalem matters…

34. 1581

35. Jerusalem matters… 1942

36. NYT April 12, 2009

37. NYT “…a revolution in worldwide Christianity, one that it is quite literally changing its face, as a faith that was once exported by white missionaries from Europe and America comes to draw its strength from the peoples of the Southern Hemisphere.”

38. NYT “The missionary movements of the 19th century inspired pious adventurers… to Africa…. Today the process is reversing itself…”

39. NYT The Redeemed Christian Church of God is often cited as a leading example of the movement. “Its leader and guiding force, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, sums up the church’s history this way: ‘Made in heaven, assembled in Nigeria, exported to the world.’”

40. The Kingdom of God

43. End wmpl.org