The Second Part of the Equation

Martin Sim

Description

An inspirational guide/thesis sharing stories and scripture that show a clear path and demonstrate viable reasons for the church, its leaders, and its followers how to return to its original mission.

Martin Sim is a devout Christian with a heartfelt desire to help others know the truth of Christ and the importance of His Word.

In an inspirational guide, Sim explores the art of missional giving by returning to one of Christ’s most powerful commandments—the Great Commission. While encouraging believers and church leaders that when we reengage with the dynamic “Book of Acts” model and bring the first 15 percent of our efforts and resources toward the war effort of the Commission, that these actions will allow the church to once again find its joy, purpose, peace, and calling. By utilizing the simple first 15 model, Sim reminds believers that it is well in their ability to change a world to see a kingdom and what they will receive if they follow Christ’s mission and restore themselves to the needs of the poor and needy, the lost, and those without hope. All when we go outside of ourselves.

The Second Part of the Equation shares stories and scripture that show a clear path and demonstrate viable reasons for the church, its leaders, and its followers to return to its original mission.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Living
• Mentoring
• Philosophie et théologie
• Great Commission
• Leadership
• Mission

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 22 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781664273702
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE SECOND PART OF THE EQUATION
 

 
A RETURN TO MISSION: OUR FIRST 15
 
 
 
 
MARTIN SIM
 
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2022 Martin Sim.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7371-9 (sc)
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WestBow Press rev. date: 10/27/2022
CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Dream, The Vision
Introduction
The Second Part Of The Equation
The Harvest Fields
The Twelve-Point Plan
Conclusion
PREFACE

It all started at a men’s conference event. Something as simple as that.
Scrimmaging through the multiple booths while in between sessions, I didn’t realize how this one moment in time would lead to a vision that would change my life.
He always does this kind of things. His Plans. His Ways. (Isaiah 55:8–9; Ephesians 3:20; Jeremiah 29:11).
At one booth during this event, a woman started pushing a book on me to the point that it was coming to be real annoying. The book was free, and she was insistent that I take it. Being a new, young believer, I thought that I knew all I had to know about Christ and that I didn’t need any more information or to waste my time reading books thank you very much. Who needs knowledge? C’mon man, let’s just get on with the show and take this show, the gospel, on the road!
What’s the saying? “Humility comes before honor”?
Just to appease her, I accepted the book and walked away thinking I would read a little of it and that would be it. Little did I know how that one book would forever reshape my life. God was planting the seed. That event happened roughly just over thirteen years ago now.
To say this book was like a stick of dynamite that had been placed under me would be an understatement. I had never been moved by a book like this. I could sense its truth. It was one of those books you just didn’t want to put down. Its title was Revolution in World Missio ns . 1
It was all about Him. All about getting back to the mission.
His Mission.
I read the book, and it’s been interesting to see the trail He has been leading me on. Leading but most of all training me into what He wanted to show me and now sharing it.
The art of missional giving. Coming back to the Great Commission.
Individually and corporately.
I love what I read on someone’s resume or Twitter account that he graduated in missions work and the course name listed as “applied theology.” I love that term. It reflects what missions is really all about—putting our theology into action. The Great Commission.
All during the process that Christ was bringing me on, I was being introduced to all these amazing players on the front lines, the boots on the ground. The mission agencies, missionaries, the compassionate care ministries, church planters, Bible translators, the persecuted church, etc., doing the unheralded, backbreaking work of sharing the gospel.
His message. His mission.
This book is a signal to coming back to our part, our responsibility, our peace, and our joy.
Most especially is the cry the emphasis of this book to the North American corporate church. To its leadership again into the investment back into our mission of the mission.
Our mandated mission. Our divined part. His commandment.
The Great Commission.
I hope that this book will clarify how so very simply we can apply and get back to this in our churches. To get back into the game without investing a dime.
Yes, you heard me right.
The only cost will be the giving back a fraction of our hearts but with the expected sure thing of a thirty-, sixty-, hundredfold windfall of His rewards, blessings, favor, and mission.
Him.
Because that is our ultimate reward.
That is our ultimate payoff.
Knowing we are on the right path.
On the right mission.
Him.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant. (Matthew 25:21 KJV)
My biggest prayer is that you and your church will see Christ in a way you have never seen Him before. In unexpected ways as you have never seen Him before. All by and through the work of mission.
By the cost of faithfulness. By the rewards of faithfulness.
Being faithful in the little now be to counted faithful in the very much later. (Luke 16:10)
All so that others may see Him.
Through our greatest mission. His greatest commission.
Individually and corporately.
The church leading the way, showing the way, modeling the Way.
For our congregations, our world, our witness.
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
To elevating the importance of mission. The reason of mission. The placement of mission.
The commandment of mission.
His mission.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)
Installing the principal concept of mission over main site (the physical site of our local churches). Not replacing it but coming alongside it.
Teaming together, working together, supporting together, winning together towards the Great Commission.
And here is the incredible part of this new reengagement of this mission—
We have it in our hands.
No special fundraising or special offerings required here.
By a simple tweaking of our hearts, we win not only the world to the glimpse of His kingdom we ultimately win ourselves back.
By coming back to His mission.
This is what the gift of giving always gives back.
That is what the act of dying to oneself always returns.
Giving back new life, a new vision, a new mission.
This is what mission does.
By His Word. By His commission.
That kernel of wheat going into the ground to produce a harvest for His kingdom happens when we go against the norm of inward to the outward.
To share His indescribable gift. His eternal gift. His Son to a waiting world.
Of His kingdom. Of His hope. An eternal hope.
An eternal truth.
Gleaned all in the workings of His commission.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)
This is what this book is all about.
To showing the simplicity of how just a little can create so much when we pool together.
As His church. In His mission. In His great commission.
We can do this together. We can live this together.
Saving lives together.
Any church. Any size. This book’s solution is a guide to fit all.
To having a fully complete and automated global missional outreach arm running for you
24/7. Doing it all.
For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me. (Matthew 25:35–36 NKJV)
As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (Romans 10:15 KJV)
The working out of His Great Commission.
On a fraction of your budget.
Running a global effo