The new Christian adjusts wonders why God would make His juvenile young children stay on this decrepit Earth. The new Christian quickly discovers that God standards His juvenile young children by the power of His Spirit to build up the residual lost juvenile young children to him. This building up is completed by the note of the Kingdom of God. All mankind should realize that God reigns. All mankind should realize that they can get reconciliation, serene, and supreme great delight by the grace of God through conviction in His Son Jesus Christ. The implication that God reigns entails that we should submit our lives to the Almighty and make him Master of our life; Jesus came to reinstate the reign of God on dirt and express serene to those who he finds favor. The dispersing of this good report with the objective of expressing adoration to our Father is the intent of missions. It was Jesus' objective in His target on dirt and he passed it up on us. This paper will develop a theology of missions by looking succinctly at the Old and New Testaments scriptures that pattern our comprehending of missions. But probably, the best way to recognize missions is to recognize the originator of missions, namely God and His natural environment and how it sways the way we should look at and recognize our world. Missions should be considered in relevance and implication to other Biblical theologies. Before the end, the patterns of missions will be an important concern in alignment to recognize our last concern on how mission's anxieties to authentic individuals striving to express the kingdom of God in the lives of those who are His elect.
Missions in the Old and New Testaments and the Nature of God
Christians often overlook the Old Testament and accept as factual of it as irrelevant or not as enlightening as the New Testament. This is incorrect. The Old Testament is the very foundation that the early location of adoration had for their theology of missions. And the Old Testament is saturated with target verses that reveal the target God we serve. God is a God of promise and in the Old Testament promises to the Old Testament saints we glimpse the missionary heart of our God as he affirms his promise of universal blessing. This is first glimpsed in his covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12 where God promises, “All peoples on dirt will be blessed through you.”[1] This promise is recurring to Abraham's progeny, Isaac and then to Jacob. [2]
The promise was evidently glimpsed and conceded afresh to Moses when he was demanded by God to free his individuals from bondage. And even then, the attentive Jew knew that he was chosen in alignment to brandish the power and might of the Almighty God. Joshua reflects on this:
The New Testament and Missions and the professional Theme and Motif
Of course, in the New Testament, our Lord Jesus is the foremost demonstration of ...