Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11017 Evangelism is the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not yet believed. It is not a programme, a technique, or a personality type. It is the task given to every believer by the risen Lord Himself, and it is rooted in the conviction that people without Christ are…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11023 The Great Commission is the final instruction Jesus gave to His followers before ascending to heaven, and it defines the church’s mission until He returns. It is not one task among many. It is the task, the overarching purpose for which the church exists between the ascension and the Rapture. Understanding it properly…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11021 Missions is not a department of the church’s work. It is the heartbeat of what the church exists to do. From the call of Abraham in Genesis 12 to the vision of every tribe and tongue gathered before the throne in Revelation 7, the Bible tells the story of a God who pursues…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11020 Jesus did not command His followers to make converts. He commanded them to make disciples. The distinction matters enormously, because it shapes how we understand the church’s mission and what success looks like. A convert has made a decision. A disciple is being transformed. The Great Commission calls us to the longer, harder,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10052 Postmillennialism is the belief that Jesus will return after (post-) the millennium. Unlike premillennialism, which sees the millennium as a future earthly reign following Christ’s return, postmillennialism teaches that the millennium is a golden age of Christian influence and prosperity that occurs before the second coming. During this period, the gospel gradually conquers…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11022 The Great Commission was given two thousand years ago, yet there remain entire people groups on earth who have never had meaningful access to the gospel. The existence of unreached peoples is not a peripheral missiological statistic. It is a theological and moral reality that should press upon the conscience of every church…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 9001 Ecclesiology is the study of the Church. The word comes from the Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklesia), meaning “assembly” or “called-out ones,” combined with λόγος (logos), meaning “word” or “study.” It is the branch of theology that examines what Scripture teaches about the nature, purpose, structure, and ministry of the Church. What is the Church?…