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Sunday School: 10:00 - 10:30
Opening Prayer: 10:30 - 10:35
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Prayer: 11:00-11:10
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Message: 11:20-11:55
Announcement/Offering: 11:55-12:05
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TOPIC: CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS
MEMORY VERSE: "And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature". – Mark 16-15(NKJV)
BIBLE PASSAGE: MATTHEW 28:18-20
INTRODUCTION: Cross-cultural missions mean reaching out to people of other cultures with the gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 13:1-4). The practice of cross-cultural missions is the secret behind the civilization and developments we have today. This is because cross-cultural missions go with enlightenment and education. Therefore, cross-cultural missionaries are those who go to an area or cultural environment different from their own to propagate the gospel. It should be noted that cross-cultural missionaries are not those going abroad to plant churches meant to reach their country/tribesmen living overseas. This is an international church planting venture which is not cross-cultural. A cross-cultural missionary's main target is the indigenous population in the foreign land (1 Corinthians 9:20-23).
LESSON OUTLINES
THE CALL TO CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS
THE HEART OF A CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARY
OUTLINE 1: THE CALL TO CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS
The calling to cross-cultural missions is forms and God can use anyone who makes him/herself available, irrespective of "age in various economic, academic, professional, or socal status. The calling could take different forms:
Apostolic calling: Here, an itinerant missionary ministers to a particular people group in a particular location per time e.g Apostle Paul (Romans 1:1).
Full-time Missionary: A person who has accepted God's call leaves his/her comfort zone to live, learn, and influence a community for a long time with the gospel of Christ.
Tent-making or Bi-vocational Missionary: A person who has a passion for missions uses his job as a tool to enter a community to finance missions with his/her work and win souls for Christ.
Social Ministry Missionary: Someone with the heart of missions rises to the pressing needs of a people group (the aged, children, prostitutes, uneducated, women, leaders, youths, etc.) with a physical relief aid to solve their physiological needs with the purpose of reaching and winning them to Christ (Hebrews 6:10).
Modern Media Missionary: The person uses the modern medium of technology to break barriers by entering restricted and free access nations with the Gospel of Christ through internet opportunities, social networks, technological devices, visuals and audio clips, and graphical resources.
Cross-Cultural missions is important because people of all races have to hear the gospel before they believe (Romans 10:14); Jesus commanded it (Mark 16:15). We are called to be actively engaged in it (Matthew 24:14). It helps to reach the Unreached People Groups (UPGs) in the world (Matthew 9:36).
OUTLINE 2: THE HEART OF A CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARY
A cross-cultural missionary must have
A passion for the lost (Romans 9:1-3);
An open mind that is always ready to accept people from a different cultural orientation (Acts 11:9-12);
Have the willingness to go (Isaiah 6:8);
The ability to endure hardship (Romans 8:35) and,
Be a person of faith with absolute trust in God's power (Proverbs 3:5; 2 Corinthians 12:9b).
CONCLUSION: God is waiting for men and women whom He will use to break barriers and make disciples among the remaining unreached people groups (Matthew 9:37). Are you available?
QUESTION
1. Mention three forms the call to cross-cultural take.
2. Identity four things that depict the heart of a cross-cultural missionary.
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NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.Refrain:
O precious is the flow
that makes me white as snow;
no other fount I know;
nothing but the blood of Jesus.For my pardon this I see:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this my plea:
nothing but the blood of Jesus. [Refrain]Nothing can for sin atone:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Naught of good that I have done:
nothing but the blood of Jesus. [Refrain]This is all my hope and peace:
nothing but the blood of Jesus.
This is all my righteousness:
nothing but the blood of Jesus. [Refrain]
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