Apostolic Leadership
identifying & growing spiritual gifts in the church
How will they believe?
For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?Romans 10:13-14
Local Church Assessment
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If your church is wanting to get started in exploring what it means to reach unreached people groups, this is the place to start. Our UPG Task Force created a local church mission assessment for you to begin prayerfully discerning where God may be calling your church.
Pray for Unreached Peoples
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“We provide a comprehensive people group database of the world, and we track what God is doing among these peoples, so we can assist the Global Church in the vision of seeing God glorified through an abundance of Christ followers within every people group.”
Perspectives
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“The Perspectives on the World Christian Movement® course examines four “perspectives” of God’s mission - Biblical, Historical, Cultural and Strategic - exploring the why and the how of being on mission with God. First developed for college students in 1974 by Dr. Ralph Winter and the US Center for World Mission, Perspectives has emerged into a global movement attracting Christians of all generations and nations.
The hallmark expression of Perspectives students around the world is “my eyes were opened.” Almost 50 years of history has demonstrated that the experience of “taking Perspectives” results in transformed lives and transformed churches, ensuing in the transformation of unreached people groups as the gospel spreads within their midst.”
Make disciples of all nations.
The mission of Jesus is to make disciples “of all the nations”. All four gospels and the book of Acts make this commission clear (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-47; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:8). Further, Matthew 24:14 indicates that the return of Jesus will follow “this gospel of the Kingdom” being proclaimed “among every people group”. Yet, despite 2000 years of the Church’s witness, there remain more than 7,000 people groups who have yet to be reached with the gospel. The task in unfinished.
Additionally, while 15 percent of Christian giving worldwide is directed towards the mission of Jesus, less than one percent of all mission dollars is devoted to reaching the unreached. And fewer than three percent of all global Christian missionaries are serving among unreached people groups. As the Global Methodist Church launches its global mission, it is imperative that an intentional focus on reaching the least reached and unreached be a central part of the denomination’s missional strategy.
“You have one business on earth –
to save souls.””
— John Wesley