Syllabus (jesus, The Kingdom, And Us)

“Jesus, the Kingdom, & Us: Living Here & Now as God’s Missionary People” New City Church: Northridge ~ Fall 2009

September 1. “The Great Commission: What’s That Got To Do With 27 Us?” October 4 2. Understanding My Story in Light of God’s Story: Part 1—Creation & Vocation October 11 3. Understanding My Story in Light of God’s Story: Part 2—The Fall & the Destruction of Shalom October 18 4. Understanding My Story in Light of God’s Story: Part 3—Redemption As Far As The Curse Is Found October 25 5. Understanding My Story in Light of Gods Story: Part 4—The Restoration of All Things November 1 6. Understanding Jesus’ Mission: “Your Kingdom Come” November 8 7. Jesus Enlists People Just Like Us Into His Mission: “As the Father has sent Me, so I am sending you.” November 8. Living as God’s Missionary People: 15 Part 1—Understanding our Spheres of Influence 9. Living as God’s Missionary People: November Part 2—Understanding the Message Entrusted to Us 22 10.Living God’s Missionary People: Part 3—Understanding God’s Heart for the City November 29 11.Living as God’s Missionary People: Part 4—Understanding the Necessity of Being Outwardly Focused December 6

“God’s mission is calling and sending us, the church of Jesus Christ, to be a missionary church in our own societies, in the cultures in which we find ourselves…their character as a mission field is so obvious as to need no demonstration. The issue for the Christian church is its faithful response to this challenge. But that is also its problem….

Mission is not just a program of the church. It defines the church as God’s sent people. Either we are defined by mission, or we reduce the scope of the Gospel and the mandate of the church. Thus our challenge today is to move from the church with mission to missional church.” ~ Darrell L Guder, Missional Church