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James Stier, YWAM
International Chairman, 23 August 1995
“Our primary objectives in Frontier
Missions must be defined in terms of the
desired results. Whatever the processes or strategies we use to pursue
those primary objectives, (and I’m in favor of using a lot of them) we
still must reach the goal. No matter how we get into a place or what
ministry we’re concentrating on, if the end result doesn’t include
churches, then we’ve failed.
In the defining of
the goal, some might want to go beyond the implantation of churches to a
fuller expressions of the Kingdom in a society. That’s OK, but I can’t
see anything further ever happening if the Church isn’t first planted and
multiplies amongst a people. Certainly the state of “unreachedness” (how
is that for a word?) would end long before all of the sectors of a society
are discipled.
If we were to
minister for years in a people group, showing a lot of love and meeting a
lot of needs, but failing to plant and structure churches, then our work
will end when we leave and that people continue to be unreached and on
their way to Hell. I don’t think that they will thank us for that on
judgment day.
I believe that we need to be very
inclusive and creative as to processes, and very focused and unyielding
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Tom Bloomer, Leader of U of N
in Europe, Middle East and Africa, March 1998
“I know of nobody in the University of the
Nations International leadership who does not believe that evangelism,
saturation church planting and frontier missions are our first and most
urgent priorities, and the critical foundations for any discipling-nations
movement. There is no Biblical or historical or practical basis for
discipling a nation, except through first evangelizing it and working
toward a strong and vigorous national church.”
[From “ONLine”, a
publication of the University of the Nations, Kona, Hawaii, March 1998,
Page 10] |
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Floyd McClung, as he
served as YWAM International Executive Director, Late 1980's
"It is not enough to
do evangelism or to plant a single congregation. We have not done our job unless
a movement of fully indigenous, mission-minded, multiplying churches is planted
in a people group. Then they can evangelize their own people, city or nation."
[From
"GUIDING PRINCIPLES: Multiplying Churches Among The Unreached",
a publication prepared by Kevin Sutter, YWAM CP Coaches. Click the title
to view the entire document.]
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YWAM's Commitment to Reach All Peoples - March 17, 1995 - Einigen,
Switzerland
“YWAM began with a vision. Loren saw waves of young people who advanced
in stages, and eventually covered the whole earth. Not only did God give
us our own specific revelation on reaching the whole world, but the
universal call for God's people to bless every nation on earth is
emphasized throughout the Bible. Therefore, the drive to reach every
people is both our Biblical responsibility, and inherent in our earliest
roots as a mission, permeating our corporate calling.”
[To read the entire
document
CLICK HERE] |
Chart comparing YWAM and Church Planting
Movements CLICK HERE
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