Key Ideas
- God initiates and advances work in history to accomplish His purpose.
- God calls His people to join Him in fulfilling His purpose.
- God’s purpose is to bless all peoples so that Christ will be served and glorified among all peoples.
- God accomplishes His purpose by triumphing over evil in order to rescue and bless people and to establish His kingdom rule throughout the earth.
- The Bible is a unified story of God’s purpose.
- God’s work in history has continuity and will come to an ultimate culmination.
- The Christian movement has brought about positive social transformation.
- The mission task can and will be completed.
- The world’s population can be viewed in terms of people groups.
- The progress of world evangelization can be assessed in terms of church-planting movements within people groups.
- Completing the mission task requires the initiation and growth of church-planting movements that follow social avenues of influence.
- Completing the task requires effective cross-cultural evangelism that follows communication patterns within cultures.
- Completing the task requires strategic holism in which community development is integrated with church planting.
- Completing the task requires collaborative efforts of churches and mission agencies from diverse cultures and traditions.
- God calls His people to embrace strategic sacrifice and suffering with Christ in order to accomplish His global purpose.
- By participating in the world Christian movement, every believer can find a way to live with vital, strategic significance in God’s global purpose.
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The Perspectives Study Program affirms the Laussane Covenant of faith and resolve.