THE NATIONS: Meeting 3
Study
Read Matthew 28:16–20 (Part 1 of 3) and respond to the quotes and questions.
“...some worshipped” Vs. 17
“I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go...” Vs. 18
“...some worshipped” Vs. 17
- What role does personal worship play in sharing the gospel with unreached peoples?
“I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go...” Vs. 18
- What is the importance of Jesus' authority, when obeying the Great Commission is against family traditions, contrary to religious rules, opposed by cultural practices, and forbid by governmental mandates?
Watch
The State of the World (4:36)
- What stood out to you from this video?
What is a Disciple Making Movement? (4:29)
"The early followers of Jesus turned the world upside down through simple obedience and social networking."
"Disciples making disciples who make disciples...this is an idea whose time has come... again."
What else stood out to you from this video?
"The early followers of Jesus turned the world upside down through simple obedience and social networking."
- Does it encourage you to know you already possess what the disciples possessed; that you can just be ordinary you and don't need a seminary degree, to be a world changer? Explain.
"Disciples making disciples who make disciples...this is an idea whose time has come... again."
- Agree or disagree? Explain.
- Share your experience with disciple making.
What else stood out to you from this video?
Discuss
Excerpt from The Abrahamic Revolution, by Todd Ahrend
In 1974 the Billy Graham Association hosted a historic conference for evangelists from all over the world in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was there that Dr. Ralph Winter first informed the world about unreached peoples. Referencing that event, author Todd Ahrend states, Dr. Winter reached up and pulled the unseen rope called unreached peoples that rang a bell which reverberates to this day. (Chapter 6)
Excerpt from From Megachurch to Multiplication, by Chris Galanos
As I was reading David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World, these two sentences leaped off the page at me and almost immediately changed my life: “In the years that followed, Langston was joined by Calvin and Margaret Fox. Together they planned what it would take to reach all of the Kui with the gospel.” Whoa! What?!?! Langston and the Foxes were missionaries to the Kui people group. Together, Garrison says, “they planned what it would take to reach all of the Kui with the gospel." They didn’t plan to just start a church and reach a few people. They developed a plan to reach all of the Kui with the gospel. They were willing to do whatever it would take! Do you know how many Kui there are? According to the Joshua Project, a website that breaks down each country into the many different people groups that live in that country, there are 1.6 million Kui. They were developing a plan to reach all 1.6 million! All I could think was, Wow!
In 1974 the Billy Graham Association hosted a historic conference for evangelists from all over the world in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was there that Dr. Ralph Winter first informed the world about unreached peoples. Referencing that event, author Todd Ahrend states, Dr. Winter reached up and pulled the unseen rope called unreached peoples that rang a bell which reverberates to this day. (Chapter 6)
- Do you hear it ringing? Share where you are in your journey of understanding of and involvement with unreached peoples.
Excerpt from From Megachurch to Multiplication, by Chris Galanos
As I was reading David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World, these two sentences leaped off the page at me and almost immediately changed my life: “In the years that followed, Langston was joined by Calvin and Margaret Fox. Together they planned what it would take to reach all of the Kui with the gospel.” Whoa! What?!?! Langston and the Foxes were missionaries to the Kui people group. Together, Garrison says, “they planned what it would take to reach all of the Kui with the gospel." They didn’t plan to just start a church and reach a few people. They developed a plan to reach all of the Kui with the gospel. They were willing to do whatever it would take! Do you know how many Kui there are? According to the Joshua Project, a website that breaks down each country into the many different people groups that live in that country, there are 1.6 million Kui. They were developing a plan to reach all 1.6 million! All I could think was, Wow!
- As a group come up with five phrases that describe a strategy for reaching every person in a give people group rather that just some of the people in a give people group.
Learn
Pray
Share what you learned in this meeting and pray as a group about those things.