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Missions in the New Testament

Posted by on Oct 25, 2012 in blog links, missional | 2 comments

My friend Eric at “A Pilgrim’s Progress” has finished his series on missions in the New Testament. He began this series back in January with a post called “Missions in…” His summary page, with links to the other posts, is simply called “Missions.”

I think this is an excellent series. He wrote one post for each book/letter of the New Testament, covering various aspects of God’s mission (and our mission as God’s children) through that particular book/letter.

I love the way that Eric introduces his summary page:

God has a heartbeat for missions that we see throughout the pages of scripture. John 1:14 may sum it up best, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” May our hearts beat for the spread of the gospel as God’s does!

This is quite timely for me, since I am praying along with some friends that God would give us a passion and opportunities for proclaiming his good news.

When you think about God’s mission (or perhaps our mission as God’s children), what verse/passage comes to mind first?

Related posts:

  1. Missions-Minded?
  2. How do we use the Old Testament to understand the church?
  3. Eric is Thinking About Missions Too
  4. How much organization and administration is necessary to finance global missions?

2 Comments

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  1. 10-25-2012
    guy muse says:

    Thanks for pointing out this excellent series. I have bookmarked the site for going back and reading through each entry.

  2. 10-25-2012
    Eric Carpenter says:

    Alan,

    Thank you for your kind words and the link!