Episode 82
#82. Rediscovering the Early Church's Vision for Global Missions
Pastor Matt Burden on rediscovering the early church's vision for global missions and what today's church can learn from that.
His new book is Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church
IN THIS PODCAST,
- How did the New Testament churches do missions?
- New Testament Missiology and Impact on the 21st Century Church
- Practical Evangelism
Matthew Burden is an author, pastor, and scholar, currently serving a church in eastern Maine. His research focuses on the intersection of church history and missiology, with a focus on understanding the missional ideas that motivated previous generations of Christians. He is the author of several books, including "Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church."
SCRIPTURE RELATED TO EPISODE:
- John 3: 16
- Luke 10
- Matthew 28
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TIMESTAMPED SHOWNOTES:
00:46 - The early church's vision for global mission
01:20 - Introducing Pastor Matthew Burden
02:20 - More on Pastor Matthew Burden
03:59 - Why the Book, Missionary Motivations
08:12 - What and when was the "Early Church?"
11:43 - New Testament doesn't give much on how to do missions
17:13 - Commanded to share the gospel
18:40 - How did the early church share the gospel?
24:22 - The most famous Bible verse
28:04 - How should we do global missions today?
34:36 - Missions and evangelism on a practical level
43:03 - Pastor Matthew Burden's contact information
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