Planting Churches among the City's Poor - Volume 1

158 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 1

b. The present reign of Messiah Jesus, 1 Cor 15.24-28; Acts 2.34; Eph. 1.20-23; Heb. 1.13

c. The ushering in of God’s kingdom community “in-between the times”; Rom. 14.7

3. The Church of Messiah Jesus: Sojourners in the Already and the Not Yet Kingdom of God

a. The Great Confession: Jesus is Lord, Phil. 2.9-11

b. The Great Commission: Go and make disciples among all nations, Matt. 28.18-20; Acts 1.8

c. The Great Commandment: Love God and your neighbor as yourself, Matt. 22.37-39

4. The Announcement of the Mystery: Gentiles as fellow-heirs of Promise, Rom. 16.25-27; Col. 1.26-28; Eph. 3.3-11

a. Jesus as the Last Adam, the Head of a New Human Race, 1 Cor. 15.45-49

b. God drawing out of the world a New Humanity, Eph. 2.12-22

5. In-between the times: Tokens of Age of Sabbath and of Jubilee, Acts 2.17 ff; cf. Joel 2; Amos 9; Ezek. 36.25-27

G. The Fulfillment of Time (The Parousia of Christ), 1 Thess. 4.13-17

1. Completion of World Mission: the evangelization of the world’s ethnoi, Matt. 24.14; Mark 16.15-16; Rom. 10.18

2. The apostasy of the Church, 1 Tim. 4.1-3; 2 Tim. 4.3; 2 Thess. 2.3-12

3. The Great Tribulation, Matt. 24.21ff; Luke 21.24

4. The Parousia : the Second Coming of Jesus, 1 Thess. 4.13-17; 1 Cor. 15.50-58; Luke 21.25-27; Dan. 7.13

5. The Reign of Jesus Christ on earth, Rev. 20.1-4