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Understanding Mission

Series · 4 parts

What mission is, where it comes from in Scripture, and how the church lives it out through every season.

By Jordan Elder

  1. Part 1

    What Is It?

    You can’t call people to be on mission together if everyone has a different answer to the question: What is the mission of God?

  2. Part 2

    An Ancient Work

    Mission is not a new work of man but an ancient work of God, and that changes everything about how burdened we feel by it.

  3. Part 3

    Reactive and Proactive

    Mission in the moment and mission by design: how the Holy Spirit leads us into both, and how to turn reactive mission into proactive mission.

  4. Part 4

    Seasons of Mission

    Good farmers know every season of the harvest. Good missionaries know every season of mission: cultivating, sowing, and harvesting.

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