DISCUSS

• What is you understanding of what Church is?

  Read: What is Church?

• Is your understanding different from what you have read here, if so, how? And if not, what was confirmed in your understanding of what the church is?

Answer the following questions in the quiz

Read Acts 2: 41-47. 

• What were the 4 simple activities that they engaged in?
• Do you see church as an event that you attend 1 or more times a week or do you see church as an all of life thing?
  
  “God’s mission is not primarily about getting people more involved in what churches are doing but getting churches more involved in what God is doing in the world”.

• Reflecting on our studying of God’s mission, what do you think is God’s purpose and mission for the church?

The main purposes of the Church are worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and mission, and that they are derived from the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37–40) and the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19–20). The mission of the church is to fulfill the plan of God. “The church’s mission is to show the world what it looks like when a community of people lives under the reign of God”

Reconciling the Mission of God and the Mission of the Church

We have learned about the mission of God, and we now have more of an understanding of what church is, but how do the two fit together?

Watch: Rethinking ‘Missional’: Reconciling the Mission of God and the Mission of the Church

Notes can be found here.