Course outline

The Kairos Courses attempt to lay a foundation, in the lives of Christians and in local churches, for active and strategic involvement in world evangelization.

The Kairos Courses seeks to accomplish this by:

1. Challenging the prevailing world-view of the Church, and to see it changed into a truly Biblical world-view, that reflects a clear understanding of the purpose and plan of God.
2. Providing a clear sense of continuity in the outworking of God’s worldwide ‘mission of mercy’ through a chosen people throughout all of history.
3. Educating in both standard and current missiological thinking and practice.
4. Encouraging active participation, by showing clear pathways for involvement.

A. The course consists of eight lessons. Each lesson consists of:
1. A Devotional study on mission
2. An introduction to and prayer focus on a major bloc of unreached peoples.
3. A review of the previous chapter
4. Participation in a growth point group
5. An introduction to the new chapter
6. A teaching or inspirational video
7. Readings and worksheets which would be done at home or in the classroom during an ‘intensive’ course. This would require a minimum of 21/2 hrs work.
8. In addition, there are several activities that help the participants focus on key issues that relate to cross-cultural ministry (cross-cultural communication and contextualized worship).

• The Kairos Course requires a minimum of 2½ hrs of classroom time, for each lesson, and 2 ½ hrs of homework.
• The introductions, reviews and devotions are presented using multi media (power-point).

B. Course Materials consist of:
1. A one volume reader
2. Missions Prayer Booklet
3. Missions Teaching Videos
4. Worksheets

C. The Course looks at Four Areas of Mission Concern:

Biblical
1. God’s Purpose and Plan
We will discover from the Bible, that Mission lies at the center of all God’s concern.

• God – The Bible is the story of His Glory
• God’s Purpose – To re-conquer His usurped kingdom and reconcile the nations to himself
• God’s Plan – To engage His chosen people in His world-wide mission of mercy.

2. Israel, The Covenant People
We will study God’s dealing with the nation of Israel in His desire to fulfill His purposes through them.

• Israel’s Obligation – To bless and be God’s priests to the nations of the world.
• Israel’s Opportunity – God did everything for their fruitfulness and success.
• Israel’s Response – On the whole negative – but God still outworked much of His missionary purpose through them.

3. The Messiah, the Message & the Messengers
We will see that God’s concern for all nations is still His central purpose as we move into the New Testament.

• Jesus, Messiah for all peoples – Jesus, ministered to both Jews and Gentiles.
• A Message for all Peoples – Jesus’ preaching on the Kingdom was for both Jew and Gentile.
• Messengers for all Peoples – The advance of the Church into intentional missions after Pentecost.

Historical
4 . Expansion of the World Christian Movement
We trace the advance of Christianity from its beginning to the present day

• The five periods of mission history since Christ.
• The three eras of modern missions
• The Final Thrust

Strategic
5. Mission Strategy
We consider the place, value and nature of strategy in world Christian mission.

• The value of strategy in mission, combined with prayer and power.
• Church planting, people movements and church planting movements.
• Local churches and mission agencies

6. The Task Remaining
We look at the mission task remaining, who and where the majority of the unreached are, and what methods should be used to reach them.

• The nations and cross-cultural evangelism – Understanding mission terms and the priority in missions.
• The major blocs of unreached peoples.
• Modern strategies and approaches in missions today.

7. World Christian Teamwork
We look at the variety of exciting ways the whole church can and must get involved in accomplishing strategic world mission.

• Teaming Up with God – Becoming a World Christian and finding our role.
• Teaming Up Locally – Active Local Church involvement in missions
• Teaming Up Globally – Partnership worldwide to fulfill the Great Commission.

Cultural
8. Cross-Cultural Considerations
We address issues, in this chapter, on successful identification and other aspects of cross-cultural communication. We also look at aspects of church contextualization and its implications for missionary work.