Week 01 - Jesus of Nazareth
From an obscure Jewish village in a small first century AD Roman province, Jesus emerged and over a three year period was hailed as the expected Jewish Messiah. Jesus’ followers soon began to boldly call all people, not just Jews, to follow Him. The Christian faith spread through the transformation of individuals who then carried the message of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
26 mins
Week 02 - Paul and the Early Church
Within seventy years of Jesus’ death and resurrection, the movement that began with Him had spread with great rapidity in the south, east and west. A key player in these early days was a Jew named Saul, later renamed Paul. Travelling back and forth across the Mediterranean, planting small groups of new Christians, writing letters to those churches, setting an example of mission work, Paul established the pattern for following generations of believers to take the message of Jesus to the ends of the earth.
26 mins
Week 03 - The Persecuted Church
Persecution runs like a scarlet thread through all the history of the Church. From their earliest days, followers of Jesus have faced varying degrees of oppression, opposition, and violence at different periods. Whatever the cause or level of persecution, it will occur as followers of Jesus seek to share His message to the ends of the earth. And often, we will discover that persecution can lead to growth in the life of the Church.
26 mins
Week 04 - Bible Translation
In their desire to communicate the message of Jesus to the ends of the earth, Christians began to translate the Bible into the languages of the people with whom they shared that message. This pattern repeated itself across the history of the Church. Today the Bible, or part of it, has been translated into around 2900 languages. The importance of this has been that over the last two thousand years, and across multiple cultures, people from around the globe have been able to hear and respond to the message of Jesus in their heart language.
26 mins
Week 05 - China
Christians have existed in China since the mid-600s AD. This far eastern nation has been repeatedly visited by a diversity of courageous, missionary-minded believers. China, today, is the world’s most populous nation. It is also, according to Open Doors, the twenty-seventh most difficult place in the world to be a Christian. Yet the number of Jesus’ followers there is growing steadily. This Church, having received its Christianity from the West, is now continuing the Church’s mission back towards the West. Today, Chinese Christians are heeding the call of Jesus to take His Word to the ends of the earth.
26 mins
Week 06 - 20th Century Mission
The Church in the West has weakened. The gravitational centre of Christian populations now thrums with energy south and east of the equator. Furthermore, the urbanisation of the world population has resulted in megacities blooming, into which pour people from every “nation, tribe, people and language” (Revelation 7:9). One result is that mission no longer flows from north to south and west to east. Missionaries from the South and East are coming to the West with the Good News of Jesus.
26 mins
Jesus the Game Changer Season 2 is titled ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ and it unveils the inspiring, sometimes forgotten or rarely told stories of game changers of the faith who risked danger and death to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Host Karl Faase takes you on a journey from the backwaters of the Roman Empire to the ends of the earth in the 21st Century, telling some of the great stories of faith and sacrifice.
The Church Campaign for Season 2 selects 6 of the 13 episodes as the basis for the ‘To the Ends of the Earth’ Church Campaign. Here are the topics this series will cover:
Week 1: Jesus’ last words our first priority (Episode 1)
Week 2: New identity in Christ (Episode 2)
Week 3: Dealing with opposition (Episode 3)
Week 4: The Bible: beyond information, brings transformation (Episode 10)
Week 5: Crossing the cultural divide (Episode 8)
Week 6: The ends of the Earth (Episode 13)
It aims to inspire Christians into mission and ultimately consider ‘so where is my ends of the earth?’
This series does not need to be done after season 1.