Missio Dei is a phrase used to describe the mission of God, as revealed in Scripture.
One of the key verses to understanding the ultimate goal of God’s mission is the vision
of heaven given to the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation, “After this I looked and
there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe,
people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb…” (Rev 7:9).
God’s mission is to have for Himself a special redeemed people from every ‘People
Group’ on earth. In Trinitarian Missio Dei, God is a ‘sending’ God, who sent Himself in
pursuit of lost mankind; who sent His Son, Jesus to bear the sins of a lost world upon
His body on the Cross; and who sent the Holy Spirit to instruct and empower the
Church, which is commissioned and sent forth to carry on His mission of having a
people from among all ‘Peoples’ of the earth. The shift in the center of gravity of world
Christianity from the Global North to the Global South can be seen as God’s divine
orchestration in raising up a mighty army, who will take the Gospel to the remaining
unreached, unengaged ‘Peoples’. The Chinese house church networks have sensed
God’s calling to take the Gospel ‘back to Jerusalem’ crossing the Buddhist, Hindu, and
Muslim worlds, along the ancient eastern Silk Routes. As part of this Global South
migration, Chinese are already living in over 140 countries around the world, where
many of these unreached ‘People Groups’ are located. We see the Nestorian ‘merchant
missionaries’ as a model for Chinese migrants to fulfill God’s calling to complete the
‘Great Commission’ mandate. / PhD (Missiology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/15269 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Gordy, John Robert |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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