{"id":933,"date":"2011-03-21T14:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svm2.net\/abandonedtimes\/?p=933"},"modified":"2011-03-21T14:16:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T12:16:06","slug":"gods-word-reveals-gods-heart-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalmmi.net\/gods-word-reveals-gods-heart-part-1","title":{"rendered":"God’s Word Reveals God’s Heart – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Paul Borthwick<\/strong>
\nPaul is a leading mission speaker and senior consultant for Development Associates International. He is also a leader in the SVM2 network.<\/em><\/p>\n

What motivates evangelism and outreach? What stirs us to engage the world with the Gospel message? Why do churches and individuals participate in world missions? I think about these questions a lot because I spend large amounts of time trying to influence people and churches to be more involved in cross-cultural missions and outreach.<\/p>\n

Do we get involved simply because of needs? Are we interested in global missions because of the \u201cglobal village\u201d in which we live? Is our evangelism simply obedience to the specific \u201cGreat Commission\u201d of Matthew 28:18-20?<\/p>\n

My wife and I were discussing these questions one night after dinner, and she offered the most succinct response. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s simple. We\u2019re involved to reflect the character of God. Missions is God\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOT REASON ENOUGH<\/h3>\n

We live in a Global Village. Satellites, the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, jet travel, and multi-national corporations have dramatically reduced our perception of the size of the earth, even as the world population approaches 7 billion souls.<\/p>\n

But the Global Village reality is not reason enough to mobilize us for evangelism and global outreach.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We live in a world of economic \u201chaves\u201d and \u201chave-nots.\u201d The vast majority (\u201cTwo-Thirds\u201d or more) live as have-nots, struggling to survive, impoverished, and without choices.<\/p>\n

The remainder lives lives of excess, consuming vast amounts of resources on themselves \u2013 often at the expense of the have-nots. But the needs and inequities of the world are not reason enough to mobilize us for local or global ministry.<\/p>\n

Experts tell us that the Christian church moves closer daily to \u201ccompleting the task\u201d of presenting the message of God\u2019s love through Jesus Christ to every ethnic group on earth – to the end of establishing self-sustaining churches in those ethnic groups.<\/p>\n

But even \u201ccompleting the task\u201d is not reason enough to mobilize us for evangelism and world outreach.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

At the foundation of our desire to mobilize the local church for global outreach stands the character of God. As followers of Christ, we supremely desire that our lives and our churches reflect God\u2019s character to the world.<\/p>\n

Which leads to these questions:
\n\u2022 How do we know God\u2019s character?
\n\u2022 How do we discover the heart of God?
\n\u2022 And where we are challenged to make sure that our hearts beat with His, and that our lifestyle reflect His character to the world?<\/p>\n

The most obvious answer is through studying the life and ministry of Jesus \u2013 God made flesh \u2013 so that we can see what God\u2019s heart and character look like in action.<\/p>\n

But beyond the Living Word, Jesus, we discover the heart and character of God by studying His written Word, the Bible.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

David Howard, former missionary to Colombia and later director of the Urbana Student Missionary Convention, points to the need to understand the Word of God thoroughly:<\/p>\n

“The missionary enterprise of the church is not a pyramid built upside down with its point on one isolated text in the New Testament out of which we have built a huge structure known as ‘missions.’ Rather, the missionary enterprise of the church is a great pyramid built right side up with its base running from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. All of Scripture forms the foundation for the outreach of the gospel to the whole world <\/strong><\/em>(emphasis mine).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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