After all, the past century has seen the most dramatic increase in Christian missionary activity in the history of the church. Engaging through the marketplace is an important strategic priority for the global advancement of the gospel in today's unique world. The vanguard of the missionary force will be the ordinary people in the pews."7 Church planter and pastor J.
Payne, Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013), p. 83. Those wonderful experiences offer the privilege of hearing amazing stories of the progress of the gospel in the world. The work could not have had a more exalted inauguration.”8 God's behavior in the opening story of the Bible determines a.
This is what I want for Reid and Sally: to be part of God's mission to see worshipers from all the people of the earth. However, there is not a strong history of outreach to the nations that continues the joint work of the church and that in the market. The Reformation was a turning point in the history of the church, as the gospel itself and the essential vocation doctrine were recovered.
The situation was ripe at the end of the 18th century in England for the launch of the modern missionary movement. Carey's rebuke of hyper-Calvinism was a major catalyst in the thinking of the Western Church. The Reformation restored the dignity of work, but largely left the church's mission aside.
Stott, The Message of the Book of Acts: The Spirit, the Church, and the World. What can professionals actually do that will benefit the spread of the gospel among the nations. Part of the answer can be found in the following seven ways a person believes.
While they were talking about the great needs in the area, I asked, “What if you were sent some church members. Opportunities like this are great ways for professionals to see gospel needs around the world. Other professional marketplaces will realize that they can be one of those well positioned to directly engage in the global advancement of the gospel.
Sarah soon learned of a job opening in one of the most gospel-resistant countries in the world.
CONCLUSION
As we have seen in this thesis the great need that remains in the world for people to hear and believe in Jesus Christ, I pray that all who read will be stirred by that reality. As Christian professionals engage in the need of the nations to hear the gospel through their work in the marketplace, a transformative change can occur in today's global cities by the many citizens of those cities who trust in Christ for salvation. And of what use would their daily labor be if the benefit was only to the foreign king who captured them.
The writer of Hebrews also encourages believers in the New Testament to remember the faith of those who came before them, who "acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth" (Hebrews 11:13). More likely, when the people heard that Jeremiah had written to them, they might have thought that he had written to say, "I told you so." From the beginning of his ministry, Jeremiah had warned the people of Israel to return to God or face continued judgment. Not referring to the land of Israel a few months or years ago, he pointed back to creation, the garden, and their original cultural mandate to fill the earth and subdue it: “Build houses and live in them; they plant gardens and eat their produce.
But seek the well-being of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to God for it, because in its well-being you will find your well-being" (Jer 29:6-7). In these verses, the linguistic connection to Eden and the cultural mandate are very strong. Fulfilling their original mandate as God's people, they would find encouragement to realize that their work is not really for the king of Babylon, but for the mission of the King of Kings, the Creator God.
May all believers in Jesus Christ see that their vocation, every good effort they find to do, finds its rightful place when it is done in the light of God's mission to his glory in the world. May all believers work for the welfare of the cities where they are in exile, so that many of its inhabitants will also one day be neighbors in the New City to come. William Carey and the Business Model for Mission.” In Between Past and Future: Evangelical Mission Entering the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jon Bonk, 167-96.
The World in the City: A World Tour through the Neighborhoods of New York City. This thesis advocates the mobilization of marketing professionals in global missions, especially in cities around the world where people are the least accessible. I present the idea that we are currently on the transition to a new era of missions, where the context for reaching the least reached will be urban, and the leaders will be.
