A Great Commission Focus on Ethnolinguistic People Groups

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A Great Commission Focus on Ethnolinguistic
People Groups

• In the Scripture and Consequentially Among
  Insulated and Isolated Unreached Peoples
• Models are Very Important

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Models in a G.C. UEPG Focus

• Models God developed within developing Israel
• Models God developed within the Disciples
• The Model of the Great Commission
• The Model of the New Testament Church
• Models we need to develop as we evangelize
  unreached ethnolinguistic people groups

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• Abraham as the Father of the Ethne and the flow
  of Gods message and blessing through Abrahams
  lineage to the coming of the Saviour
• Abraham and Isaac model of God His Son as
  Saviour of the world

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• Abraham as the Father of the Ethne and the flow
  of Gods message and blessing through Abrahams
  lineage to the coming of the Saviour
• Abraham and Isaac model of God His Son as
  Saviour of the world

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• Israel the Hebrew am as the people of God
  in contrast to the goyeme, other ethnics
  outside Israel
• The Passover that God gave as a model of coming
  Saviour, His death, of end times, and Church
  celebration

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• Israel the Congregation of God in the
  wilderness and all of the symbols seen in the
  wilderness wandering
• The Tabernacle as the model for church
• The entire Sacrifice system in O.T. as a model
  for Christs sacrifice

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• The prophet as preacher, fore-teller and
  forth-teller that God raised up and sent out to
  Israel and to the ta ethne (translated as
  nations in English versions of the Bible)
• Baptism that Christ modeled gave for
  celebrating new birth within His congregations
• The Man of Peace is a N.T. model

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Models God Developed As He Developed Israel as
ta ethne, the People of God

• The Lords Supper an extension of the
  Passover as a model that Christ himself modeled
  as means of perpetuating within local churches
  the memory of His sacrifice
• Christ Church/es as a real and actual model of
  tearing down the bastions of Satan

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Distorted or Changed Models

• Israel wanting a human as king instead of God as
  king. This mistake of Israel runs all through
  the Old and New Testaments
• The Tabernacle and the Congregation of Israel
  instead of a Temple and Clergy as the model for
  church. Notice that Jesus never accepted the
  Temples (in Jerusalem or Samaria) as His model
  and foretold their destruction.
• Thus the King of Israel the Sanhedrin and its
  resultant distorted priesthood as central instead
  of the Church--the Congregation with Christ as
  the Bride, the Head of His churches as central

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The Great Commission and His Churches As His Model

• We are to go out and establish Christs churches
  with Him as the Bride among each and every ta
  ethne ethnic people group that exists which goes
  back to Abraham and runs as a them through the
  entire Old Testament
• Each church is to bring into it new born
  disciples, Christs disciples who themselves make
  disciples, who perpetuate the model of Baptism,
  who teach as Jesus taught and what Jesus taught
  to church members and their disciples until
  Christ returns for His people

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The New Testament Church Becomes our Model

• We understand from the New Testament that God
  wanted those early disciples, as God in Christ
  had taught them, to move among the ethne from
  Jerusalem to the uttermost planting churches,
  model churches, who could go on to plant other
  churches based upon that model
• We have committed ourselves to plant model New
  Testament churches among each ethne and move away
  from other models as Jesus moved away from Temple
  and its poor model