Anyone asking about the core ideas of #PerspectivesWCM? Give them these 16: 1. God initiates and advances work in history to accomplish His purpose. 2. God calls His people to join Him in fulfilling His purpose. 3. Gods purpose is to bless all peoples so that Christ will be served and glorified among all peoples. 4. God accomplishes His purpose by triumphing over evil in order to rescue and bless people and to establish His kingdom rule throughout the earth. 5. The Bible is a unified story of Gods purpose. 6. Gods work in history has continuity and will come to an ultimate culmination. 7. The Christian movement has brought about positive social transformation. 8. The mission task can and will be completed. 9. The worlds population can be viewed in terms of people groups. 10. The progress of world evangelization can be assessed in terms of church-planting movements within people groups. 11. Completing the mission task requires the initiation and growth of church-planting movements that follow social avenues of influence. 12. Completing the task requires effective cross-cultural evangelism that follows communication patterns within cultures. 13. Completing the task requires strategic wholism in which community development is integrated with church planting. 14. Completing the task requires collaborative efforts of churches and mission agencies from diverse cultures and traditions. 15. God calls His people to embrace strategic sacrifice and suffering with Christ in order to accomplish His global purpose. 16. By participating in the world Christian movement, every believer can find a way to live with vital, strategic significance in Gods global purpose.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:46:01 +0000