Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Describe the changing world of the past 70 years and identify how these changes have impacted and influenced the current practices of missionaries and mission agencies

• Recount the overarching shape of missions throughout church history

• Outline guidelines for self-preparation for a mission, cultural preparation for missions, and establishing effective strategies for developing and supporting a mission

• Describe missional approaches to encountering the religions of the world

• Analyze the trends and issues in contemporary global missions and give thought to where global missions are headed

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker

• Introduction to Global Missions

Unit 1: The Mission of Missions Continues

• The Beginning of Missions

• Researching Early Christian Persecution with Studies in Early Church History

• Spreading throughout the Known World

• Researching Traditions about the Journeys and Martyrdom of the Apostles

• Post-Apostolic Expansion

• From Persecuted Church to Legalized Church

• Missions to Europe and North Africa

• Orthodoxy and Nominalism

• Arian Barbarians

• Patrick Evangelizes Ireland

• The Christianizing of Europe Continues

• Expansion to the East

• The Re-Evangelization of Europe

• Eastern Europe

• Confrontation with Islam

• Effects of the Crusades

• Islam and the Mongols

• Marco Polo

• The Black Death

• The Muslim Offensive into Eastern Europe

• Roman Catholic Missions

• More Roman Catholic Missions

Unit 2: Missions in the Reformation

• Pre-Reformation “Evangelicals”

• Desire for Reformation Grows

• The Matter Comes to a Head

• The Reformation Begins

• The Institutes of the Christian Religion

• Sacramental Controversy

• Restart Rather Than Reform

• Separation of Church and State

• All Ceremonies Not in the Bible Are Idolatry

• The Reformation Comes to England

• Purifying the Church of England

• Catholicism Colonizes Central and South America

• Baptist Beginnings

• A Vision for the Unreached Peoples of the Globe

• A Mission to Native North Americans

• Pietism

• Christian Community at Herrnhut

• Moravians and Missions

• The Moravians’ Influence on Wesley

• Using the Timeline Tool to Find Relevant Historical Concurrences

• The First Great Awakening in America

• The Second Great Awakening in America

• Another Mission to Native North Americans

• The Third Great Awakening in America

Unit 3: The Golden Age of Missions

• The Status of Missions in 1800

• Clarifying Some Missiological Terms

• The Great Century

• William Carey

• Performing a Heading Text Search on William Carey

• Carey Goes to India

• Robert Morrison to China

• David Livingstone to Africa

• Revival, Evangelism, and Missions

• The Haystack Prayer Meeting Sparks Missions

• Adoniram Judson in Burma

• Luther Rice Organizes Missions Support at Home

• Three Eras of Evangelical Missions

• The Faith Missions Concept

• The Pioneer of Faith Missions

• Slow Start of Missions in Other Areas

• Examining Applications of the Three-Self Church

• The Bible Institute Movement

• The Student Volunteer Movement

• Four Stages of Mission Development on a Mission Field

• Colonialism

• Ecumenism and Global Mission

• The Ecumenical Movement

• Liberal Theology

• Missions’ Reaction to Liberalism

• Two World Wars Undo Colonialism

• The Evangelism Scale

Unit 4: Missions in Transition

• Everything Is Changing

• The Retreat of the West

• Communist Expansion and Defeat

• Vatican Council II

• Basic Search for Articles on the Second Vatican Council

• The Pentecostal/Charismatic Boom

• Changes in Missionary Personnel

• New Attitudes toward Indigenous Missionaries

• Innovations in Methodology

• What’s Next?

Unit 5: Hearing God’s Call

• The Call to Salvation

• Called to a Purpose

• Call or Guidance?

• The Term “Missionary”

• Using BDAG to Study New Testament and Ancient Uses of Apostolos

• The Church’s Mandate for Mission

• Does the Need for Workers Constitute a Call?

• What Does It Take to Be Used?

• The Call to Full-Time Ministry

• The Spirit’s Guidance

• Who’s Speaking?

• Start with Obedience; God Will Lead You from There

• How to Know It’s God Who’s Guiding

• Seven Motivating Incentives

• Studying the Greek behind the English Words “Good” and “Evil”

Unit 6: Preparing a Missionary to Go

• Identifying Potential Missionaries

• Three Types of Training

• Spiritual Formation

• Ministry Skills

• Seven Wisdom Steps

• Saying “Yes”

• Biblical Basis for Mission Boards

• Types of Mission Boards

• Choosing a Mission Agency

• Functions of Mission Agencies

• Problems and Challenges

• Strategic Trends

• Strategies for the 21st Century

• Where Do We Go from Here?

Unit 7: Preparing a Church to Send

• The Sending Church

• Churches Are Not Just Senders

• Involving the Congregation in Missions

• Educating the Congregation

• Training Prospective Missionaries

• Two Necessary Policy Decisions

• Caring for Missionaries on Home Assignment

• The Sending Church/Missionary Partnership

• Three Types of Missional Churches

Conclusion

• Missions Show the Heart of God

Details

• Title: MI101 Introducing Global Missions

• Instructor: Don Fanning

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2014

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 7