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    No Plan B
    No Plan B
    No Plan B
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    No Plan B

    By Compassion International

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    The church is an unstoppable force, prevailing against hell itself.

    The church is a dynamic kingdom community, chosen to establish God’s reign on
    earth.

    The church is God’s plan A to bring transformation and holistic healing to the
    world’s most complex challenges. There is no plan B.

    Many churches today struggle to relate to the first century church, the ecclesia established by Jesus Christ. Similarly, Christ’s original mandate to “make disciples” is hardly recognizable in modern church culture.

    Yet this command to make disciples is the core mission of the church, the single strategy given by Christ to bring the kingdom of God to our broken world. Disciple making begins outside the walls of the church in our communities, our places of work and our schools. As we journey together toward Christ, we discover that we grow by helping others grow. As we live for others and help them grow toward Christ, we ourselves are conformed into His likeness.

    This mandate to make disciples extends to our children and youth, often overlooked as participants in this great commission. While many assume children have no role to play in Christ’s call to make disciples, research confirms that children and youth are a powerful and effective mission force in the nations, an underestimated demographic in the church that desperately needs to be activated and empowered.

    No Plan B is a call for every person in the ecclesia of Christ, 11 years and up, to live not just for themselves but also for their neighbors. It is a call to be “your brother’s keeper” and bring the kingdom of God to YOUR community by restoring the disciple making movement Jesus Christ began 2000 years ago.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPome Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2015
    ISBN9781311339980
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    No Plan B - Compassion International

    Compassion International, 12290 Voyager Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80921 www.compassion.com

    No Plan B

    Copyright © 2014 by Compassion International®

    Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

    Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

    Scripture marked MSG is taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

    NO PLAN B

    Calling the Next Generation to Christ’s Radical Command

    1. The Ecclesia of Jesus Christ

    In the English Bible, the word that we read as church is generally a translation of the Greek word ecclesia. In pre-New Testament usage, ecclesia referred to a call or summons for the army to assemble.¹ Later in its development, the word was used to denote popular or general assembly for a civic purpose, or a socio-political gathering, specifically in Athens. Overall, the word as it was used in the ancient secular world conveyed the meaning of a gathering of people, an assembly, or an event where people came together in one place for socio-political purposes.

    The word ecclesia occurs 114 times in the New Testament, and there are three basic ways in which it is used. Its primary usage refers to an assembly (gathering) of the people of God. This is similar to the way the word was used in the secular world at that time. The New Testament almost always uses ecclesia to describe a gathering of Christ-followers. The author of Acts uses it only three times

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