THE GREAT

COMMISSION -

• Dr Grace - Mae
 Every Home for Christ is an international missions
organization dedicated to the Great Commission.
EHC is driven by the belief that Jesus tasked His
Church to reach all people in every nation with the
Gospel and to disciple them in His ways.
Every Home for Christ was founded in 1946,
has remained on a steady committed course toward
this vision. Today it is domiciled in over 130 nations
and continues to actively equip the local church to
reach the lost with the Gospel and make disciples.
Vision
To serve the Church to
reach every home on
earth with the Gospel.
Vision
Seeing the church in Zimbabwe
cooperatively working together to
engage/ equip its members to be
Intentional ambassadors of God’s
purpose bringing the RULE and REIGN
of Christ into every area of life and
every corner of society resulting in
the knowledge of the glory of God
covering the earth as the waters
cover the sea.
Mission
Every Home for Christ exists to serve the
Body of Christ in equipping and mobilising
Christians everywhere to actively
participate in taking the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to every home in the whole world,
adding new believers as reproducing
members of the Church to see the literal
fulfilment of the Great Commission.
Mission
We strive to fulfil this vision by affirming and
equipping the African Church with a Biblical
worldview to actively pray for and participate in
seeing Christ becoming incarnate in
every place among every people and within every
systematic
sector of society through a
personal presentation and wholistic
demonstration of the Gospel of the
Kingdom to every home and every
house in every Community: ensuring the
existence of a Bible believing life giving
congregation of believers within each community
and among every class and kind of people.
Mission

Equipping congregations to minister

holistically and incarnationally operating
from a Biblical worldview demonstrating
the transforming love truth and beauty of
Jesus Christ in such a way that it
Meets the community’s diverse needs
Heal their deepest wounds
Redeems distinct cultures
Restore their God given dignity, destiny
and joy
• OBJECTIVES
• To entrench the culture and ethos of
pursuing the lost with a passion in the
Zimbabwean church and other para church
organisations.
• To facilitate and enable the establishment
of Healthy and Biblically pure forms of the
church that can actively seek to fulfil the
Great Commission literally.
• To envision and equip the church and
church leaders alike to make disciples
through a strategic approach and curriculum
that appeals to Zimbabweans knack for
stories:BFAM
Three Unalterable Convictions
Every Home for Christ operates under three
unalterable convictions namely:
• The Great Commission must be taken literally.
(Mark 16:15.)

• Without unity, finishing the task of global

evangelization is impossible. (John 17:21-23.)

• Prayer, alone, will remove every obstacle that

stands in the way of fulfilling the Great Commission.
(Mark 11:22-23.)
• To harness the human capital that is
in the church and direct it towards the
fulfilment of the Great Commission.
• To facilitate the establishment of
evangelism teams in every ward and
district in Zimbabwe as a strategic
focus to reach every home with the
Gospel of Jesus Christ.
• To resource the church with
literature, tools and aides to
effectively fulfil the Great
Commission.
• To design and create additional
literature that is contextual and
relevant to specific people
groups with the ultimate
objective of reaching the lost.
• To identify and engage in other
projects which will only enhance
the effectiveness of the local
church and EHC in Zimbabwe
The church is the only business
that is in business but has no
idea what business it is in,
nevertheless it stays in business.
 WHAT IS THE CHURCH?

• A church is an indispensable gathering

of professing believers in Christ who under
leadership are organized to pursue its
mission through functions to
accomplish its purpose.
 WHAT IS THE CHURCH'S MISSION?
The church's mission is and always
has been the Great Commission.
Matthew 28: 19-20
Mark 16:15

The church's mission is to Go and

make disciples.
The going implies that the church is
to be proactive.
Making disciples is both
evangelism and maturing
those disciples though
teaching and equipping.
The believer must become a
committed disciple then must
progress to be a contributing
disciple.
• WHAT IS THE
The success of the
CHURCH'S MISSION?
church is
measured by its

obedience to the

Great Commission.
• Some churches have a mission
not the great
which is

commission but an aspect

of it e.g. Evangelism, Bible
teaching, worship or simply an
inward focus of taking care of one
another.
• The church that ignores Great
Commission is
THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH
• Every organization has a reason for
existence.
• Purpose answers the questions such as

why do we exist?
The church's purpose is glorify
•

God.
• 1 Cor 10:31.
• 1 Cor 6:19-20
• Romans15:5-6
• Matt5:16

•
elevate,
To glorify God means to

shedding radiance,
and splendor on God.
 THE GREAT
COMMANDMENT
• Love the lord your God with all your
heart with all your soul with all your
mind and with all your strength love
the lord completely

• Love ourselves appropriately

• Love our neighbor compassionately

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH
• magnify, and elevate
It implies that we
God and that we diminish and deny
ourselves and allow him to increase.
John1:23

•
It means being preoccupied with God
and his assignment and being committed to
God's ways rather than preoccupied with and
determined to accomplish our own ways.

•
functions and
As the church performs its

fulfills the great

Commission in its ministry community it
purpose and
accomplishes its

God is glorified.
• 2 Thessa 1:11-12
• Matt 5:16
 HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?
• The church is structured in terms of

Functions and forms

• Functions are the church's means
to accomplish the church's

mission.
• These timeless
are
unchanging, non
negotiable precepts
that are based on scripture.
• They are Biblical mandates that
determine and clearly spell out what
every church must pursue in
order to accomplish the church's
purpose.
HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?

Timeless means they don't

change with time,
we can never outgrow them.
The same specific functions in the
1st century church
must still be the same functions
in 2015.
Unchanging: means
that functions do not
Change regardless of
culture, region or
circumstances.
Functions must never
change. The church
must never abandon its
functions no matter
what challenges come
its way and regardless
of the changes that
HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?

Nonnegotiable- they are not a

smorgasbord or a buffet.
You can not pick and choose
what you want to do.

To function Biblically, the

church should pursue all
functions.
 HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?
•
All functions serve the same common
purpose.

•
Functions are not optional.
•
detail ministry
They
precepts.
•
They are keys to church health.
Ignoreany one of them and the
church becomes diseased,

• Functions may therefore be used to

evaluate the health of your
church.
 HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?
•
implications of the
We must also consider the
church's functions.
•
ignored then church ceases to serve
If functions are
Christ mission.
•
Therefore it becomes a disobedient
church.
• The church's marching orders is that we just teach people to

obey everything the master, Jesus Christ

commanded.
•
All of these functions serve a common
purpose.
•
individually and
They collectively help us

corporately as the church to

glorify God and to enjoy him
forever.
HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?
The church's functions
Great
are found in the
Commission
Scripture.
Matt 28:19 they are
given
prescriptively
Acts 2:42-47 they are
given
descriptively
HOW IS THE CHURCH STRUCTURED?
Acts 2:42-47. 42 And they continued steadfastly in the
apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers.

And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders

and signs were done by the apostles.

And all that believed were together, and had all things
common; And sold their possessions and goods, and
parted them to all men, as every man had need.And
they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple,
and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their
meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising
God, and having favour with all the people. And the
Lord added to the church daily such as should be
saved.
 EVANGELISM

• Evangelism: there was constant reaching out to there.

The people expressed the gospel in both word and
deed through missions, evangelism, and sharing their
lives and possessions with the needy.
• Crusades
• Door to door
• Friendship and Relationship Evangelism
• Deeds if kindness
• Websites
 Evangelism is the announcement,
proclamation, and/or preaching of the gospel
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
the good news of and about Jesus Christ.
Therefore, the gospel is a communicated
message
communicated in verbal.
Luke 7:22
Romans 10:14-17
and/or written form
Luke 1:1-4.
The English word “evangelism” comes from the Greek word euaggelion.
Most literally translated in the noun form
euaggelion means: “gospel” or “good news.”
In the verb form euaggelizesthai
the meaning of the word changes slightly to mean “ to announce”
or “bring good news.”
The Greek word in its various forms appears fifty-five times in the New
Testament.
In addition to the before-mentioned translations,

the Greek word is also translated as “ preach.”

 Evangelism,
the communication of the gospel message
includes a warning,
an explanation,
and a call.
Evangelism includes 1.
warning people about sin
and the consequences of sin
John 16:8
Acts 24:25
Revelation 20:11-15
Evangelism, the communication of the
gospel message

It includes an explanation of God’s

remedy for sin :
the gospel
Acts 8:29-35
Romans 3:21-26
2 Corinthians 5:21
And it includes the clear call to repen
to turn from sin and to turn toward Go
and believe the gospel
by faith
Mark 1:15
Luke 13:1-5
Acts 17:29-31
Romans 1:17
Romans 10:9-13
First and foremost GOOD news
What do you do with news ? You tell it!
News What GOD has in done Christ for us and is
supremely focussed in his identification with us
substituting himself for us, cross, death and
resurrection and ascension and cessation and
what is continuing to do in us and for us.
Starts with the sin of man and its consequence.
Then goes on what GOD has done before we
move to tenets otherwise its just moralising
The message must recapture what the gospel is
Gospel is big category that does the transforming
work
Romans 1:17
 Resultant
lifestyle

HIS
CEASATION

HIS
ASCENSION

HIS
RESURRECTION

HIS
BURIAL
Born of the water
HIS and of the Spirit
DEATH
John 3:7
Coming of
Christ

Sin of Man
The basis of the resultant lifestyle is the power of
the gospel.
Rebirth
The main message during the Evangelical
awakening was you must be born again.
George Whitfield preached John 3:3 3000 times
When he was asked why he preached on the
rebirth so many times he said because you must
be born again.
Jesus first used the phrase to Nicodemus a
Jewish rabbi
• depth of a church is
The
Determined by the
quality of its
worship and
instruction.
•
It is not either
or but rather both.
• The quality of our worship
and our and instruction gives
the church its strengths
tabulate and discernment.
• The breadth of a
church is determined by
its commitment to
fellowship and
evangelism.
• stop
If we
evangelizing we will
become an exclusive inward
looking clique instead of a
caring outward looking
church.

• If we don't reach out we will

become ingrown.
 A Cause A Family A corporation

- The church is
- It is missional - The church has a
relational business side to it
- Great - Nurturing - It is a corporation
Commission - The organisation,
- It is a family
- Gives it the process in order
- The product of for it to accomplish
direction its mission
ministry is
- Without it the
relationship - Different bottom line
church is - Without it the
s church is
directionles
- Without it the disorganised
s church is cold .
THE OIKOS INITIATIVE
EHC Zimbabwe has embarked on an exciting
Evangelism strategy known as the OIKOS
initiative. Oikos meaning house. In this
initiative we are aiming to reach every home in
Zimbabwe with the gospel by 2033.
That is a mammoth task but are confident that
it can be attained.
The strategy is simple:
Everybody lives somewhere, and in a particular
ward. Therefore we are mobilising churches in
every ward and equipping and capacitating
them to visit every home in their constituency
and systematically share the Gospel.
In the end, the Oikos ‘goals and vision’ is
pretty simple. We are taking our vision,
which has remained constant over our
70+ year history, and trying to make it as
real as possible. We want to reach
every literal home (place where
someone lives) on earth in the next 20
years. By the end of the 20-year
period, this will represent about 2.5
billion homes.
Oikos is an ancient Greek word meaning
“family” and “house”—the basic unit of society.
The Church began in an oikos setting (Acts
5:42; 8:3; 20:20). Since earliest times, the
family home has been the center of life.
Abraham took his family (his home) and
followed God’s call. Cornelius gathered his
household together in his home to hear the
message God had given Peter. When God
called Israel out of Egypt, He expressly
instructed them to gather in their homes,
placing the blood of a slain lamb upon the door
posts.
EHC CONVICTIONS