Facilitating the Mission

Culture and World View Part One

Pastor Jeff Jackson

In the second part of this message, Jeff Jackson continues to define the difference between American culture and culture in most of the rest of the world where American missionaries work and minister. Americans need a framework for understanding how people in other cultures treat each other, how to interact, and how to communicate in honor-based cultures.

In this message, Jeff Jackson defines the difference between American culture and culture in most of the rest of the world where American missionaries find themselves working. Americans need a framework for understanding how people in other cultures treat each other, how to interact, and how to communicate in honor-based cultures.

In this podcast, Jeff Jackson looks at the refugee discussion happening in our culture through a theological lens. Refugees and their resettlement is something we all need to come to terms with. The best place to start is by understanding how this issue intersects with the sovereignty of God.

Click here to listen to the first part in this series.

This is the first in a series of podcasts about refugees. All of a sudden, we Americans have an unusually high sensitivity about the topic. Fear that refugees are about to over run American cities has people on the verge of panic. Media and political rhetoric add fuel to the flames.

In this first podcast, Jeff Jackson defines what a refugee is and describes the process a refugee goes through before he sets foot on American soil. Give it a listen; you’ll be surprised and settled at the same time.

Who is a refugee? —defined by the United Nations

A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries.
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These are some of the agencies and resources mentioned in the podcast:

Resettling Refugees: A Few Observations and a Few Questions – Jeff's blogpost on calvarychapel.com

 

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

International Offices of Migration (IOM)

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

Voluntary Organizations (VOLAG)

International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Catholic Charities

Lutheran Social Services

Jewish World Services

World Relief

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term used often in a number of different conversations. In this podcast, Jeff Jackson defines PTSD and discusses it as it relates to the care missionaries currently serving in a foreign field and returning and reintegrating back into a life in the States.

Jeff mentioned some excellent resources. Here are links to access them for yourself:

Books:

• Trauma & Resilience: A Handbook edited by Charles Schaefer and Frauke Schaefer
• The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World by Miroslav Volf

Websites:

• Alongside
• Heartstream Resources
• Link Care

God knew sending His Son was going to be costly, but He did it anyway. And He didn't do it to keep us from escaping hell; that along with eternal life are important, incredible gifts, but they're perks. What God intended was for us to have a personal, interactive relationship with Jesus. Through this, He can bridge the ethnic conflict, tribalism, and ethnocentricity that divides His creation.

People at odds with each other are looking for ways to have unity and peace. Only God through Jesus Christ can bring what humanity longs for. Political and religious leaders can’t do it.

The effect of God’s love through His people is unity from diversity.

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This edition is the first half of The Effect, a talk Pastor Jeff Jackson gave at Calvary Chapel Central Bucks 2016 Missions Conference.

In today’s podcast, we learn the scope of Jesus’s mission is global. God’s ability to bring unity from diversity is an incredible reflection of His glory. The Effect of God’s call on us as believers is our active participation with God in His mission.

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If every Christian is a missionary, then nobody’s a missionary. If everything is missions, then nothing is missions.

Every follower of Jesus is called to declare the glory of God in their everyday lives and among the nations. In this podcast, we learn discipleship is relational, not informational. Discipleship is the passing on of eternal truths in the context of meaningful relationship.

Every believer in Jesus is called to send and care for missionaries called to go into the field. If you haven’t been called to GO as a missionary, you have been called to SEND those who are called to GO. You either send or go or you have no idea who the God is that you serve.

Those who are called to go into the mission field will:

• Say goodbye to everything familiar and comfortable.
• They will begin living incarnationally among a people that are not at all like them.
• They will have to entrust themselves to God’s provision through fellow believers.

 

Biblical examples of those God called to go:

• Abram
• Joseph
• Jonah
• Jesus with a few of His disciples

Jesus' relationship with His disciples was for a reason larger than their own interests.

This is the first in a series of podcasts compiled from messages Pastor Jeff Jackson taught at Calvary Chapel Central Bucks 2016 Missions Conference.

In part one of The Call, Pastor Jeff unpacks three main topics:

1. The Call as it relates to the Worthiness of God where we learn why missionaries are called to go to the mission field. The reason is not what you're probably thinking it is.
2. The Call Christians have to proclaim the praises of God to those around them in their day-to-day lives.
3. The Call to reach those among the nations God has brought to your doorstep. In this country, the world is among you. No matter what your political opinion is about current immigration policy, God has brought ethnic groups into your neighborhood so you can represent Jesus to them.

This entire message along with notes are available on video here.

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