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The word “mission” is Latin and means “sent out”, like the Greek “apostello”, from which the word “apostle” comes. Mission is the sharing of the good news of God’s salvation. God has sent various people and groups to bring his message to the world, such as prophets, Israel, the Messiah, and the Church. The message is conveyed partly by witnessing …
Evangelism is telling the good news that the kingdom of God is now here, that Jesus died and rose again for our sins, that you can be saved by believing in Jesus Christ, that you can have eternal life and go to heaven. In the context of preaching the Gospel, miracles are a confirmation that the kingdom of God has …
Isa 54:1-3 Isaiah receives prophetic messages from the Lord in the middle of the 7th century BC, a time when both Israel and Judah were in very troubled times. Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in the 7th century and Judah by the Babylonians in the 5th century. The prophetic writings of Isaiah were of great comfort to the Jews …
2Kings 7:1-2 The background to this incident is that Israel and Aram are fighting with eachother. In the previous chapter, Elisha, through God’s intervention, managed to put an end to the Aramean raids inside Israel, but now the Aramean king Ben-Hadad comes with his entire army and lays siege to the Israelite capital of Samaria. The siege becomes so difficult …
Acts 8:26 Philip was one of the seven deacons chosen in Acts 6:1-7. It may seem strange that an angel of the Lord asks Philip to leave a very successful and fruitful missionary activity (Acts 8:4-13) to go out into a desolate wilderness. God always looks beyond us and always has a long-term plan. We need to trust that God …
Acts 8:4 Those who fled Jerusalem were not well-trained theologians, pastors, apostles or missionaries. Those who spread the message of Jesus were ordinary Christians fleeing for their lives. You don’t have to be a trained and consecrated pastor to preach. The vast majority of people who become Christians don’t become Christians because they heard a great sermon by a trained …