Mission
Impossible (3): Risks Mk 06 07-13
Impossible (3): Risks Mk 06 07-13
2015/09/27
Christ Church, Mountain Top
Christ Church, Mountain Top
Call
to Worship, Psalm 40.1-11
to Worship, Psalm 40.1-11
Children, Isaiah 52.7
Message,
Mark 6.7-13, 30-32
Mark 6.7-13, 30-32
Binding
two related themes
two related themes
Impossible things that we must face in
family life, professional life
family life, professional life
Impossible call of Jesus to follow &
serve
serve
Week
1: Departures
1: Departures
Fish for people
Week
2: Confrontations
2: Confrontations
Living the values of the kingdom when the
world is in conflict with them
world is in conflict with them
Allowing Jesus to confront our sin with
grace to overcome
grace to overcome
Week
3: Risks
3: Risks
Stepping out in mission with creativity
and spontaneity
and spontaneity
“If”
by Rudyad Kipling
by Rudyad Kipling
If you can make one heap of all your
winnings
winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss
And lose, and start again at your
beginnings,
beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss
Risk,
ever present in life
ever present in life
High school, asking a girl out
Job interviews
Making a cold call, sales pitch
Merging two churches (our November
“birthday”)
“birthday”)
Going for a 2-point conversion
Essentially
risk-averse – need a good reason to step out of safety zone
risk-averse – need a good reason to step out of safety zone
“Worth the risk?”
Risk
in the passage:
in the passage:
Interlude between sending and returning
John the Baptizer loses his head
In
Jesus’ strategy, rejection, frustration, and threat were fuel for recommitment
and recommissioning (Mortimer Arias, 1992, The
Great Commission: Biblical Models for Evangelism, Nashville: Abingdon, p
48).
Jesus’ strategy, rejection, frustration, and threat were fuel for recommitment
and recommissioning (Mortimer Arias, 1992, The
Great Commission: Biblical Models for Evangelism, Nashville: Abingdon, p
48).
Mark
is introduced as “the good news of Jesus Christ the Son of God” (1.1). The
first person, in Mark’s gospel, to recognize Jesus as “Son of God” is the
centurion who leads his execution detail (15.38-39, see Arias, 51).
is introduced as “the good news of Jesus Christ the Son of God” (1.1). The
first person, in Mark’s gospel, to recognize Jesus as “Son of God” is the
centurion who leads his execution detail (15.38-39, see Arias, 51).
Resources:
Creativity, versus Control
Creativity, versus Control
Sent out “resource poor” – like young person
looking in the fridge
looking in the fridge
Take nothing for your journey, not even a
second shirt
second shirt
Cemex – resources at the bottom of the pyramid (an old Stanford Social Innovation Review
article)
article)
Spontaneity,
versus Scripted
versus Scripted
Does not send them with lots of ready-made
answers
answers
Sends them with authority to figure it out
and do it
and do it
Our insecurity, that are unprepared,
unknowledgeable
unknowledgeable
Do not know the problems we will face
Do not know how they will be solved
Simply committed to doing it,
figuring it out
figuring it out
Being the new face – meeting people
Use a “script”, or choosing to be
spontaneous
spontaneous
He
speaks from his heart because he is too eager to be able to refrain from
speaking. … To all this is added the mysterious power of a secret. Christian
experience is always a secret; and the man who speaks of it to another always
pays him a subtle compliment when he entrusts him with his secret of life.
speaks from his heart because he is too eager to be able to refrain from
speaking. … To all this is added the mysterious power of a secret. Christian
experience is always a secret; and the man who speaks of it to another always
pays him a subtle compliment when he entrusts him with his secret of life.
Roland
Allen. 1962 American edition. The
Spontaneous Expansion of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. P 10
Allen. 1962 American edition. The
Spontaneous Expansion of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. P 10
