மிஷன் Sunday
July 13, 2025
*Mission: From Everywhere To Everywhere*
*அருட்பணி: எங்கிருந்தும் எவ்விடத்தும்*
✓ *Mission (அருட்பணி),* *Ministry (திருப்பணி)* & *Evangelism (நற்செய்தி பணி)* must be understood separately.
✓ Mission is Sending a Specific Person to do a Specific Work.
✓ Ministry is How to do the Mission
✓ Evangelism is Proclaiming Gospel
✓ Diocese of Madras is *Pioneer* in Mission Work:
*-Board of Mission & Evangelism:* 135 Missionaries _(25+ Womem Missionaries; 4 Transgender Missionaries & Few Nari Kuravar Missionaries)_
*-City Mission:* Buying Land for Constructing Churches where Missionaries Work
*-Socio-Economic Concerns:* Relief Works to the Poor & Needy during Disasters
*-Board of Hostels:* 30 Hostels, Day Care Centres, Mentally Challenged Homes, Old Age Homes, School for the Deaf
*-Medical Mission:* Hospitals & Dispensaries
*-Ministries:* Transgender, Sea Farers, Dalits & Adivasis, Mathamma.
*1.Mission: Crossing Boundaries*
*எல்லைகளை கடப்பது: அருட்பணி*
*1 அரசர்கள் 17.1-16*
✓ Ahab & Jezebel introduced Baal Worship (Canaanite god of Rain & Fertility) - Elijah predicted Drought and Famine
✓ Yahweh Send Elijah to Zarephath in Sidon to a Widow
✓ Mission is to Cross Boundaries:
-Leave Israel & Go to Gentile Sidon
-Leave Divine Provision (Food from Ravens) & Go to Human Provision (Food from Widow)
-Elijah spoke against Sidon origin Jezebel & Blesses Sidon origin Widow
*2.Mission: Confronting Barriers*
*தடைகளை தகர்ப்பது: அருட்பணி*
*Galatians 2.1-10*
✓ Paul goes to Jerusalem and Expresses his Gospel that's been sharing to the Gentiles
✓ False People urge Gentiles to Circimcise on becoming Believers
✓ Mission is to Confront Barriers:
-Create Borderless (not circumcised) Community of Christ
-Disrupts Human Structures of Caste, Race, Religion etc.
-God shows no partiality
*3.Mission: Constructing Believers*
*பற்றுறுதியாளர்களை வளர்ப்பது: அருட்பணி*
*Matthew 13.47-52*
✓ Jesus speaks about the Parable of Net & Householder.
✓ Mission is to Construct Believers:
-Not just Catching, but Holding On & Keeping them
-Educates, Transforms and Creates Just Communities
-Teaches Gospel (New Treasure) & Law (Old Treasure)
Mission:
_-Cross Boundaries_
_-Confront Barriers_
_-Construct Believers_
*Amen*
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