RCCG YAYA Sunday School Students Manual 27 April 2025 Lesson 35 – Cross-Cultural Missions (Part 1)
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TOPIC: Cross-Cultural Missions (Part 1) (RCCG Sunday School Manual For Young Adults And Youths (YAYA)
MEMORY VERSE: “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” – Mark 16:15 (KJV)
BIBLE PASSAGE: Matthew 20:18-20 (KJV) (Scroll down for RCCG Sunday School 27 April 2025 HYMN)
18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Also Read:
– Open Heaven 27 April 2025 – Unbelievable Testimonies
INTRODUCTION: Cross-cultural missions mean reaching out to people of other cultures with the gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 13:1-4). The practice of cross-cultural missions is the secret behind the civilization and developments we have today. This is because cross-cultural missions go with enlightenment and education. Therefore, cross-cultural missionaries are those who go to an area or cultural environment different from their own to propagate the gospel. It should be noted that cross-cultural missionaries are not those going abroad to plant churches meant to reach their country/tribesmen living overseas. This is an international church planting venture which is not cross-cultural. A cross-cultural missionary’s main target is the indigenous population in the foreign land (1 Corinthians 9:20-23).
LESSON OUTLINES:
- THE CALL TO CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS
- THE HEART OF A CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARY
1. THE CALL TO CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS
The calling to cross-cultural missions is in various forms and God can use anyone who makes him/herself available, irrespective of “age,” economic, academic, professional, or social status. The calling could take different forms:
- Apostolic calling: Here, an itinerant missionary ministers to a particular people group in a particular location per time e. g Apostle Paul (Romans 1:1).
- Full-time Missionary: A person who has accepted God’s call leaves his/her comfort zone to live, learn, and influence a community for a long time with the gospel of Christ. E.g. Timothy (1 Timothy 1:3).
- Tent-making or Bi-vocational Missionary: A person who has a passion for missions uses his job as a tool to enter a community to finance missions with his/her work and win souls for Christ. (Acts 18:1-4).
- Social Ministry Missionary: Someone with the heart of missions rises to the pressing needs of a people group (the aged, children, prostitutes, uneducated, women, leaders, youths, etc.) with a physical relief aid to solve their physiological needs with the purpose of reaching and winning them to Christ (Hebrews 6:10).
- Modern Media Missionary: The person uses the modern medium of technology to break barriers by entering restricted and free access nations with the Gospel of Christ through internet opportunities, social networks, technological devices, visuals and audio clips, and graphical resources. Cross-cultural missions is important because people of all races have to hear the gospel before they believe (Romans 10:14); Jesus commanded it (Mark 16:15). We are called to be actively engaged in it (Matthew 24:14). It helps to reach the Unreached People Groups (UPG) in the world (Matthew 9:36).
CLASS ACTIVITY 1: Which of the missionary approaches will you engage in this week?
2. THE HEART OF A CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARY
A cross-cultural missionary must have a passion for the lost (Romans 9:1-3); an open mind that is always ready to accept people from a different cultural orientation (Acts 11:9-12); have the willingness to go (Isaiah 6:8); ability to endure hardship (Romans 8:35) and be a person of faith with absolute trust in God’s power (Proverbs 3:5; 2 Corinthians 12:9b).
CLASS ACTIVITY 2: What is your burden for the lost souls and how do you hope to achieve it?
CONCLUSION: God is waiting for men and women whom He will use to break barriers and make disciples among the remaining unreached people groups (Matthew 9:37). Are you available?
QUESTIONS:
- Mention three forms the call to cross-cultural missions takes.
- Identify four things that depict the heart of a cross-cultural missionary.
FURTHER READING:
Sunday: Mark 16:15-16 (KJV)
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Monday: Romans 10:14 (KJV)
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Tuesday: Acts 26:15-20 (KJV)
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. 16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; 17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. 19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: 20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Wednesday: Colossians 4:2-4 (KJV)
2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; 3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: 4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Thursday: John 20:22-23 (KJV)
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Friday: John 14:26-27 (KJV)
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Saturday: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-3 (KJV)
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
ASSIGNMENT: Carefully look out for one or more missionaries to bless with a cash gift (No Mark).
SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN
- O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
O how I love Thee well,
I am happy, it makes me glad
To rejoice at Thy birth. - O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Thy friend friendship suits me well,
Both young and will sing Thy song,
We long for Sunday School. - O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Christ was Thy first teacher,
The Holy Spirit, great teacher,
Does manifest in thee. - O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
This testimony is sure,
That God, the Father Almighty,
Poured His blessing on Thee - O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day,
Though the sun be so bright,
Or if the clouds be black with rain,
I’ll be in Sunday School. - O Sunday School, on the Lord’s day
I rejoice to see Thee,
Will thou pass over me today?
Without my being blest?
