In Your Bible Read This
Acts 16, 6-15, 1 Thessalonians 1, 4-10
Here Is Your Memory Verse
Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area
of activity
among you will greatly expand, so that we can preach the gospel
in the regions beyond you. 2 Corinthians 10.15-16.
Afterwards Talk About
This
Can this be done in your church or the churches you know?
If not, why not?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Think about different Clusters to see who you know that might
fit
into each area. Can you imagine some peoples who the
Clusters
might target in their prayer and ministry. Who and where are they?
Written Diploma Work
Look again at the list of clusters and write down other,
maybe even better ideas for Clusters which are relevant to your
nation, circumstances and culture.
Meditate On These Verses
Acts 6, 3-4
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For Peru -
Operation World page 444
- 25, 000,000 Andean
people, 89% Roman Catholics in crisis
- Evangelicals growing
fast, economic and legacy of terrorism problems
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray and
prepare well adding
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your own verses and
stories to bring it to life.
1. Come Quickly, Lord
Jesus.
People everywhere long for Jesus to return,
and he will when the gospel of the Kingdom has been preached to
all the worlds different peoples. We are closer than ever
before, and now is the easiest time in all of history for your
church to reach far beyond its local boundaries.
2. Finishing The Task.
Missions experts have listed 12 important
strategies that every church can embrace to help finish the Great
Commission. Here they are - beginning with the easiest and ending
with the hardest.
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Intercession and spiritual warfare.
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Networking with the global Church.
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A new openness to using the gifts of
the Spirit in the missions context.
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Recovery of urgency in the church.
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Expand church evangelism to cross
geographic or cultural barriers.
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Marry overseas social work with gospel
preaching and vice-versa.
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Outreach to the worlds children.
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Outreach to the women of the world who
are kept behind closed doors of religious traditions.
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Outreach to the worlds mega-cities.
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Visit poor native church leaders to
help, mobilise and equip them.
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Outreach to an unreached people.
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Re-evangelise the Old World.
Pastor will think that this means even more
work for him to do, and he has so little spare time already. The
treasurer will worry because world ministry sounds expensive and
there is no spare money. On the other hand many people will be
thrilled with the idea of reaching out to others far away, but
they do not know what to do. What is the answer?
3. Clusters Release
People Power.
Cluster ministry can help your church to
step forward into world ministry without overburdening the pastor
or causing stress to the treasurer.
What Is Cluster Ministry?
Cluster or cell ministry happens when say from 5 to 15
church members meet together to do something in mission that
interests them. The pastor trains them how to relate to him
and to each other. He appoints a leader for each Cluster and
a church elder as the Cluster overseer. The Cluster pray,
talk together and then present the Pastor with their goals
and a plan.
Who Pays For This?
Each Cluster raises its own money by faith and work. All
the Pastor has to do is let them go. There is no extra work
for him, his only job is to encourage, to listen, and to
review each Clusters progress every six months. The
release of energy can be remarkable taking the church targets
for missions prayer, missions giving, going and sending
through the roof in spectacular growth.
4. What Kind Of Clusters?
Let us think big and suggest the following
ideas. We will take the strategic list and start with the easiest
things to do with room for everybody, and work our way along to
the most difficult and demanding.
Maybe in the beginning only one or two
Clusters can come together but God will soon give growth as
people catch the vision and want to join in.
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Let those who want to pray for
the nations, for missionaries, for the church worldwide,
especially the suffering churches meet, say weekly.
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Let those who like writing link
your church with churches around the world. You will
soon be receiving visits and maybe God will make it
possible for you to go and visit them to learn about
their faith.
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Let those who prophesy or see
visions, wait upon their ministry to get words of
direction for missions, missionaries and for trips.
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Let those who lead the church
have their own cluster to lead by example into Isaiah 54,
2-5.
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Let those who sing or do drama
prepare items to make the whole church aware of Gods
wide world and the call to missions.
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Let those who want to reach out to
other cultures meet with local foreigners to
discover the issues and learn how they react to the
gospel.
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Let those who love street work
plan to visit the nearest big city where millions are
trapped in crime, drugs and prostitution. They should
find out about world cities and link up with believers
there who will be glad of help.
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Let those who love the poor
make plans to reach out to a world of hungry, ragged and
sick people, particularly to women and orphans. Find out
who can help them because big things like this are best
done in partnership.
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Let those who weep for the worlds
neglected children make their plans, however
simple, to reach them in love with food, protection and
school.
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Let those who feel called to reach unreached
peoples nearby or far away plan the steps for teams
to go. Consider locations, costs, languages, training and
travel. Dont forget that Europe, spiritually is the
darkest, most secular continent on the earth. Let those
who know languages use them to help the missions
team.
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Let those who can make money by
Gods gift and grace look for ways to make the funds
for church missions and missionaries.
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Let those who know the Bible plan to
visit believers who truly hunger to know the Scriptures
but have no Bibles or pastors to teach them. There
are thousands of pastors in the world who know almost
nothing of the Bible.
Best of all you will find that God is with
you in a new way. Dont be afraid to ask him for help, or to
enter into partnership with other churches and missions who can
help you participate in world ministry.
- Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
China
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
|
E (Kjang E) |
E |
30,000
|
Jiamao |
Jiamao |
52,300
|
Kang |
Kang |
37,000
|
Mahei (Mahe, Mabe) |
Mahei |
12,000
|
Malu (Lansu, Diso) |
Maru |
13,000
|
Man Cao Lan |
Man Cao Lan |
72,000
|