Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

LESSON	TOPIC	SUBJECT MATTER
BIBLICAL
Lesson 1	The Living God is a Missionary God	God's promise (Abraham); God's plan; God's two-fold problem and single purpose
Lesson 2	The Story of God's Glory	God's purpose of gaining worship from the nations; Exodus/conquest, the Temple and global worship of the nations, prayer-rebelling against the status quo.
Lesson 3	Your Kingdom Come	Hope meaning & mystery of the kingdom of God, message of the kingdom, a vision of the kingdom and laboring fro justic now, a warfare mentality, contending with evil in all of its forms; spiritual warfare amidst the nations, preparing the way for evangelism
Lesson 4	Mandate for the Nations	Jesus and the Gentiles; joining with God; Great Commission; the uniqueness of Christ, dealing with universalism
Lesson 5	Unleashing the Gospel	God opens the Gentiles; joining with God; Great Commission; the uniqueness of Christ, dealing with universalism
HISTORY
Lesson 6	Expansion of the Chirstian Movement	The 400 year periods; the countinuity of the world Christian expansion, the furit of the faith-substantial blessing and healing of the nations
Lesson 7	Eras of Mission History	Three eras of modern missions, understanding the four stages of church-mission dynamics, women in missions, rise and reality of non-western missions, trends of the modern mission farce.
Lesson 8	Pioneers of the World Christian Movement	William Carey/Hudson Taylor/Cam Townsend/ McGavran; student movements
Lesson 9	The Task Remaing	Seeing world as peoples increase: measuring exposure to gospel; World A.B.C closure; verifying necessary response to gospel; missiological breakthrough; assessing the size of task; imbalance of mission force allocation; hope of mobilization possibilities
CULTURE
Lesson 10	How Shall They Hear?	Cross-cultural communication, social structure, conversion
Lesson 11	Building Bridges of Love	Incaranation, identification-viable roles, encounters-power, commitment, truth
STRATEGY
Lesson 12	Christian Community Development	Survey of world need, development before/with/following gospel encounter, basic commnuity development role of the missionary and new churchs in transformation, do missionaries destroy culture?
Lesson 13	The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches	Multiplying churches by obedience-oriented evangelism, house church and people movements
Lesson 14	Pioneer Church Planting	Front church planting. 'de-westernizing' gospel presentation, case studies examined
Lesson 15	World Christian Partnership	World Christian (WC) lifestyle and roles of sending, welcoming, going, Wc partnership with local church, mission structures, and global movements