12 April 2023 | St. Albans [tedNEWS]
During the November 2022 Trans-European Division (TED) Year-End Meetings, the Executive Committee voted to focus on three strategic mission aims from 2023 – 2025. Over the past three months, tedNEWS started a journey to explain what is at the heart of this focus, and with it the implications for the life and witness of the church. Who better to help unpack all of this than TED president, Daniel Duda.
- Extend Love to the Whole Person
“You cannot be engaged in mission unless you have received love. John says, “We love because He first loved us…” “If I want to love some person that I am in close relationship with, I need (you) to understand where they come from, how they are wired.”
To read more about love being the number 1 value, click here
- Grow Lifelong Disciples Together with All Ages
“By neglecting to build a discipleship culture, we reveal that somehow covertly we believe in salvation by confessing the right doctrines… When you develop relationships with people and they dare to come, when you create a safe environment in which they can investigate the claims of Christianity, and when they finally decide to give their lives to Christ: What next? What happens then? In this conversation the second TED mission aim is examined.
To read more about building a culture of discipleship, click here.
- Multiply Communities in People Groups and Places
In both this conversation and the accompanying article, Daniel Duda and Anthony WagenerSmith (TED Mission and Evangelism director) explain the need for the church to purposely look outwards, to extend love to beyond people like us. It is the call of the gospel, calls for sacrifice, takes us out of our comfort zone. What is the distinction between church splitting, church cloning, and church planting?
To discover more about the TED vision to create new communities click here.
