For the Sake of the World: A Missional Ecclesiology (Newbigin’s Missional Logic)

• Series: Church Planting
• by: Michael Goheen 03/31/07
• Series: Church Planting

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A New Understanding of Mission

The Role of the Church in the Biblical Story: Biblical Theological Reflections

1. The Bible as the True Story of the World

2. Israel’s Mission

• Genesis 12.1-3 and Exodus 19.3-6: A ‘so that’ people
• Israel’s failure and the prophetic future

3. Jesus’ Mission 

• Already-not yet: Mission between the times
• Making known and accomplishing the kingdom of God
• Sending the church to continue the mission of Jesus and Israel

4. Church’s Mission

• Witnessing community (Acts 1.8)
• Spirit: Foretaste and preview
• Three marks of the church (Acts 2.42-47)
• Antioch and Paul (Acts 11.19-26; 13.1-3)
• Acts 28 and 29: Our part in the story

The Role of the Church in the Biblical Story: Systematic Theological Reflections

1. Ecclesiology Today

2. The Ecclesiology of Hendrikus Berkhof

• Church as institution and as community
• Church’s orientation to the world

3. The Ecclesiology of Lesslie Newbigin

• Proper identity: Related to God and the world
• Sign, foretaste and instrument of the kingdom
• Factors crippling a missionary consciousness
• Implications of proper identity: Life in community and in the world