Go . . . Make Disciples
Description
The Church's mission task is more crucial than ever today. Jesus not only challenges us to go and do it, but he has modelled it for his followers then and now. At the end of John's Gospel, his challenge is: "As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."
Christians need to engage in mission as Jesus did: intimately related to the Father God, motivated by love, engaging with the world, seeking to save and heal people in need, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God, with servant hearts, in partnership with others, and drawing on all the resources of the Holy Spirit to equip us and empower us.
John Marsh writes from his extensive and varied experience of mission, learning from Jesus, the master-missioner, and seeking to apply these principles to the contemporary situation, for all who want to respond to Jesus' challenge to "Go and make disciples".
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Thanks
- Here we go again!
- Whom Shall I Send?
- Sent . . . As Children
- Missing the heart
- What is God like?
- Knowing God
- Jesus and his Father
- The key
- Review
- Sent . . . To Do The Father's Will
- A memorable experience
- Working it out . . .
- The secret of success
- What about us?
- Sent . . . In Love
- Questions!
- Answers!
- 35"God is love"
- An important principle
- The way of love-a warning!
- Sent . . . Into the World
- God became human
- What a strange lot!
- Sharing ourselves
- The big, bad world
- Growing the church the hard way . . .
- What about us?
- Review
- Sent . . . To Save
- Clarifying our aim
- An old hand
- The Saviour comes!
- What did he do?
- "We preach Christ crucified"
- The power of the cross
- For ever and ever, amen
- Sent . . . To Heal
- A complete job!
- The coming of the healing Saviour
- Sending others out
- Healing today?
- Sent . . . With Signs Accompanying
- God in action . . .
- Jesus takes over the action
- The action continues . . .
- Does God's action continue?
- God's action experienced . . .
- God in action today
- Sent . . . To Establish a Kingdom
- It's here!
- Understanding the kingdom
- What's it all about?
- The battle of the kingdoms
- Face to face with the enemy . . .
- The battle continues
- Life in the kingdom
- Jesus explains the rules
- Sent . . . To Serve
- Not quite what they expected!
- Jesus the Servant
- Following in the Servant's footsteps
- Serving together
- Sent . . . Together
- You in your small corner
- God's strategy
- The earliest successful attempt
- What a church-what a mission!
- Sent . . . Fully Equipped
- What a task!
- Power for all
- Examining the equipment
- Equipped together
- Look, no hands!
- The cupboard is bare
- Fully equipped and ready to go
