The Mission of God in the Light of the Prophetic Text

This article discusses the mission of God and how it goes beyond the congregation of the devotees. It explores the universal and inclusive nature of God's mission and how the prophets foresaw the mission to the Gentiles. The article also discusses how prophetic messages influenced and impacted the life and ministry of Paul.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
The Mission of God.........................................................................................................................2
Universal and inclusive nature of God's mission.............................................................................4
How the prophets foresaw the mission to the Gentiles....................................................................6
How the prophetic messages influenced and impacted the life and ministry of Paul.....................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference:......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
God's mission is to move individuals to work with the materials he gives to deliver new
and great manifestations and to arrange the different features of the world. The world God made
is great, and when people start to work as per the laws of God in creation, things turn out to be
'great' (Genesis 1:31). Lamentably, the human kind could not keep up to the moral standards and
goodness that as expected from them and therefore there is immense suffering and terrible
consequences which they have to face. However the historical journey of the rise of God’s
messengers to save humanity that started in Israel and then went on to give rise to the Christ,
God gives individuals the elegance to come back to him. He recuperates the World's brokenness,
and he opens the best approach to completely reestablish his unique purpose for the world,
including humankind's job of co-inventiveness with him. Both the production of the world and
its reclamation by God's effortlessness are in this way the mission of God. God's mission isn't
fundamentally about getting individuals more engaged with what houses of worship are doing,
however getting holy places more associated with what God is doing on the planet. It is a move
in accentuation from drawing in groups to chapel gatherings towards preparing and supporting
devotees of Jesus for their work on the planet1.
The Mission of God
Fundamentally mission is God's mission and it is a mission that goes past the
congregation of the devotees. It grasps everything that God is doing on the planet through
individuals and countries to set up His Kingdom here on earth, inside the congregation and past
the congregation and the Church2. It is a mission that all Christians are called to take an interest
1 Stott J. Christian mission in the modern world. InterVarsity Press; 2015 Dec 5.
2 Wright CJ. The mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's grand narrative. InterVarsity Press; 2013 Feb 28.

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and have a huge advantaged to do as such. In this manner God's work isn't constrained to the
undertakings of the congregation, yet the congregation has a unique job, sent by God to proceed
in His mission.
Christians take an interest in the God’s mission over each movement of lifetime that
communicates God's imagination, maintains creation of God's, and coordinates with His
recovery. The congregation, comprising associations related to Church, is the one entity solely
committed to propelling the God’s mission, therefore all the Christians are a part of the
congregation. Obviously, the congregation itself isn't the kingdom of the Supreme Lord, and the
work of the Church is not the main way adherents approach crafted by propelling kingdom of
God. As it is put forward by Dallas Willard , 'The congregation is for teaching, and
apprenticeship is for the world'. Accumulated in places of worship, The mission of God is
preached by the Christians in a wide variety of methods and ways. Dispersed into an astounding
assortment of work environments, Christians have chances to propel the God’s mission through
day by day work in each circle of civilization. Anglican Bishop D.T. Niles of Ceylon brought up
that 'the Church is the main society which exists to help its non-individuals'. The congregation
comes into contact with non-individuals basically through its kin's every day collaborations with
individuals in their work environments.
The outcome is that places of worship do the God’s mission themselves, in addition they
prepare Christians to live the life in sync with the mission of God in various ways. The last job,
preparing Christians for laboring outside chapel bodies, which is fundamental, on the grounds
that except if Christians are prepared and upheld for it, their work is probably going to have
minimal constructive outcome in the direction of God's mission3. Places of worship that help
3 Bell, C.R. ed., 2016. Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church. Hendrickson
Publishers

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Christians at work wind up on an adventure in undertaking of His mission. Their spotlight has
extended from focusing on what the Supreme Lord is performing in the church to incorporate
what He is doing on the planet. They likewise help individuals of the Church achieve a look at
the God who advances afore them into their work and welcomes them to work as accomplices in
His work there. Among holy places that have experienced this move in context, distinctive
religious accentuations might be seen.
For a few places of worship, it is a development of their current evangelistic
accentuation. They now more purposely perceive work environments as a vital need in their
evangelistic effort. All things considered, this is the place a great many people invest the
dominant part of their energy and where Christians are frequently in close contact with non-
Christians. Moses was presumably not worried about these inquiries when he composed the
opening sections of Genesis.
He was attempting to set up God's kin for the mission they were made to do , a mission
Christians in the twenty-first century are likewise gotten to do.
Moses is telling his unique group of onlookers, and us also, that humankind's unique
calling is found in the creation account. The gospel call is a redemptive come back to the lost and
relinquished calling of being God's picture bearers on the planet. This calling has never had
anything not as much as the total of God’s unique, great creation4.
Universal and inclusive nature of God's mission
Christians trust the existence of the one living and genuine God, the Creator, Preserver,
and Governor all things considered, creatures, and things. Christians trust that God is self-
4 Boot, J., 2014. The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope. Freedom Press

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existent, autonomous and unceasing; omniscient and inescapable; unending in wisdom, goodness
and power; in justice, leniency and truth. With Saint Paul Christians say, "To us there is but one
God, even the Father." Christians trust God to be the all inclusive Father of humankind; the
Father of Spirits, our Father in paradise, who cherishes the entire human family, no matter what,
even while they are yet delinquents, who is thoughtful to the unthankful and to the abhorrence,
and who will have all men to be spared, and to go to the information of reality. In one word,
Christians trust that God is Love.
Therefore, Christians perceive and acknowledge the oneness of all mankind as brothers
and sisters made in the picture of God. There is "One God and Father of all, who is most
importantly, and through all, and in all of you" (Eph. 4:6). It is an exceptionally huge reality,
recorded in the main section of Genesis, that when man was brought into being, ''God made him
in his very own picture," that is, as his kid, conferred to him his own inclination, as a parent does
to his posterity; ; settled that relationship in his extremely being at creation. Give us a chance to
see what this imperative truth adds up to. Each individual that lives, or that at any point did live,
in this world, each person whom God has made, has a father in paradise. He might be a
miscreant; he might be as liable and abandoned as the intemperate in the story; he might be
estranged from his Maker, dead in trespasses and sins, but there still is this indestructible
connection "of father and youngster" existing among him and his Creator. This is what St. Paul
implies. On another event, he told the idolatrous Athenians that they, even they, were "the
posterity of God," in spite of the fact that they were absolutely irritated from him.
As all humankind have one and a similar Father in paradise, they have a typical
association with one another," as and in addition with Him. They are all brethren ; they frame but
one family in the constitution settled by their Creator. It is a most imperative truth, that all the

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distinctive classes of individuals, from the least to the most noteworthy, from the best to the most
exceedingly awful, all things considered, hues, characters, and conditions, are bound together by
an endless blood-relationship, which they can't separate, however they may sin against it. This is
the convention of St. Paul, when he says, "God hath made of one blood all countries of men, to
harp on all the substance of the earth." Whether humanized or wild, dark, or white, or red,
freemen or bondmen, holy people or heathens, all were made brethren, just as much as the
children in your family were conceived in that partiality; and, in seeing God and obligation, they
never can end up other than brethren.
Mission is derived from the idea of God. God the Father sends the Son and the Father and
the Son send the Spirit on mission. Assist God, Father, Son and Spirit send the Church on
mission into the world. Consequently the precept of the Trinity replaces soteriology and
ecclesiology as the wellspring of reflection on mission. This thought is later grabbed by the all
the mainline Churches in their different congregations. It will be fair to cite the Second Vatican
Council, as one among numerous writings that could be cited from the reports of numerous
Churches.
How the prophets foresaw the mission to the Gentiles
There is nothing new about people groups or societies viewing themselves as picked of
the divine beings, having some unique advantaged association with an exceptional god, with
some assigned obligation forced through a contract with him, which signifies that they are a
prophet. It has been very basic all through the ages. It might have had its inception in the
connections of human’s first progenitors with the Creator5. As one sees from the record of
human and heavenly connections depicted in our Judeo- Christian sacred writings, Adam as well
5 Willis D, Coe A. Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God. Moody Publishers; 2014 Aug 26

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as his male centric successors appreciated a covenantal association with the Lord. Through it
they recognized what they could anticipate from him and what their obligation to him was, to
propagate his great lifestyle. They anticipated that this relationship would acquire benefits this
world and participation in his unceasing kingdom to come. (Moses 5:6– 12, 14– 15; 6:22– 23.)
Many people groups from that point forward have accepted such connections, and some have
been very intolerant in their religious self-see. The individuals who have not had the genuine
idea of the all inclusive Father who thinks about all individuals have thought they were picked
and would be honored on account of their identity6. Some designed neighborhood divine beings
concerned just with nearby individuals. Now and then even the genuine beneficiaries of the
patriarchs grew false thoughts regarding their status and mission. The picked individuals of the
living God were truly conveyed salvation to all other individuals, different families, different
countries.
The sacred texts demonstrate expressly that the picked individuals work as messengers
and observers for the Lord after he has accumulated and recovered them (Isaiah 43:1, 5, 10, 12,
25, and so forth.). Clarification of such capacities, alongside depictions of the aftereffects of such
work, are found in Isaiah section 44. Jacob the worker Israel the picked—is guaranteed of seed,
of posterity, who will yet jump up; and afterward others will come to them: "One will state I am
simply the Lord's; and another will call by the name of Jacob; and another will buy in with his
hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel" (Isaiah 44:1– 6)7.
Everybody thirsts' identity welcomed to share of the waters, and of the wine and the
drain, without cash and without cost, as indicated by another disclosure through Isaiah.
6 Doran RM. Social Grace and the Mission of the Church.
7 Nelson T. Holy Bible. Thomas Nelson Publishers; 2016.

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How the prophetic messages influenced and impacted the life and ministry of Paul.
Paul, a bond-hireling of Christ Jesus, called as a witness, set apart for the good news of
God, which God guaranteed previously via His messengers in the heavenly Holy books,
concerning His Son, who was conceived of a relative of David as per the tissue, who was
pronounced the Son of God with control by the revival from the dead, as indicated by the Spirit
of heavenliness, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have gotten effortlessness and
apostleship to achieve the submission of confidence among every one of the Gentiles, for the
wellbeing of His name, among whom you additionally are the caller of Jesus Christ; to all who
are adored of God in Rome, called as holy people: Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ8. At the point when God called upon the individual Saul, who was later
renamed as Paul, he was bespoke to take the gospel of the Lord to the Gentiles, however he
generally wound up in the synagogues of the Jewishes as well, so the Gospel of Christ was
carried by Paul wherever He went and utilized each chance to convey the message and
communication of Christ to those he interacted with. God advised Ananias to go and look for
Paul, “for he is a picked instrument of mine to convey my name before the Gentiles and rulers
and the offspring of Israel” (Acts 9:15), so this was the mission of Paul. The Apostle Paul stated,
“I make it my aspiration to lecture the gospel, not where Christ has just been named" (Rom
15:20), yet that “The individuals who have never been recounted him will see, and the
individuals who have never heard will comprehend” (Rom 15:21)9. It's not as though Paul had a
decision in the issue, since he said “For need is laid upon me. Burden to me in the event that I
don't lecture the gospel” (first Cor 9:16b), so it resembled the early church and the witnesses
8 Wolter M, Brawley RL. Paul: An Outline of His Theology. Baylor University Press; 2015.
9 Nongbri, B., 2015. The Concept of Religion and the Study of the Apostle Paul.

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stated, "for we can't yet talk about what we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:20). The Apostle Paul
said that God directed him to “Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles” (Acts 22:21),
Conclusion
God's mission among the people is to extol Himself crafted by reclaiming individuals and
reestablishing creation. He makes it obvious in Isaiah 42:8 that He won't surrender His
transcendence to some other. Since only he is God, magnificence has a place with only him. He
has no adversaries and He has no equivalents. He can expand kindness or convey judgment, and
in everything, He is right in whatever He does. In His leniency, God has uncovered Himself to
humankind so that we can comprehend Him, comprehend His temperament as well as know
Him10. The scriptural record instructs that Adam and Eve are reestablished. The Hebrews, when
insubordinate, are gotten back to the contract. The corrupt are reclaimed and the profoundly dead
are given new life. It is the immense mission of God that saturates the Scriptures as He uncovers
His inclination as a Sender and as the One sent to anchor salvation.
Moving into the New Testament, clearly the center moves promptly to Jesus the Messiah.
With the manifestation, God the Son actually goes up against human fragile living creature and
lands here on mission. He carries with Him the kingdom of God and introduces His rule upon the
earth, proclaiming in Mark 1:15, "The time is satisfied, and the kingdom of God has drawing
close. Apologize and trust in the uplifting news!" The mission of God in the service of Jesus is
the declaration of God's control and rule recharged among us. Be that as it may, the declaration is
an antecedent to Jesus' demise as a reparation for wrongdoing and His restoration as triumph
over death. God's mission discovers its apex in the pivot purpose of mankind's history in the
passing of Jesus. Through it, He overcomes sin, passing, and damnation in the demonstration of
10 Sanders EP. Saint Paul, the Apostle. Retrieved from. 2016

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perfect kindness that no one but God can achieve. By God's mission and God's mission alone
would we be able to return into association with Him.

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Reference:
Bell, C.R. ed., 2016. Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church.
Hendrickson Publishers.
Boot, J., 2014. The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope. Freedom Press.
Doran RM. Social Grace and the Mission of the Church.
Nelson T. Holy Bible. Thomas Nelson Publishers; 2016.
Nongbri, B., 2015. The Concept of Religion and the Study of the Apostle Paul.
Sanders EP. Saint Paul, the Apostle. Retrieved from. 2016.
Stott J. Christian mission in the modern world. InterVarsity Press; 2015 Dec 5.
Willis D, Coe A. Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God. Moody Publishers;
2014 Aug 26.
Wolter M, Brawley RL. Paul: An Outline of His Theology. Baylor University Press; 2015.
Wright CJ. The mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's grand narrative. InterVarsity Press; 2013
Feb 28.