Winning the World

Session 6: Mobilizing American Cities for Church Planting Movements 121

b. Col. 3.11 (ESV) – Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

2. We are to cultivate our “adoption,” i.e., our belonging into the family of God.

a. Eph. 1.5 (ESV) – he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

b. 1 John 3.1 (ESV) – See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

3. Ownership: indigenously “owned and operated” structures and patterns

a. We have a spiritual inheritance, Eph. 1.11 (ESV) – In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.

b. Even the Corinthians are called to be saints of the Most High God, 1 Cor. 1.2 (ESV) – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours. c. There are no second class movements of the Spirit, James 2.5 (ESV) – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?