Doctrines of Demons: Appendix
Two
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving
spirits and doctrines [taught by] demons... (1 Tim 4:1 NKJ)
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CONTENTS
- Global Networking for Evangelization
- Some Organisations and Projects
- Some Key Players
- Lighthouse Movement
- Denominations Involved
- Organisations Involved
- Lausanne Covenant
- Apostolic/Prophetic & Revivalist
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- People
- Sites
- Resources
- Their Own Links
- Globalist Links
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Some Organisations and Projects
Networking for the Global Church
- Global 2000 (UN/New-Age)
- United Religions (UN Interfaith Initiative)
- Parliament of the World's Religions
- World Council of Churches
- Lausanne Movement
- Millennium Institute
- Habitat for Humanity
- Jubilee 2000 (Roman Catholic)
- AD 2000 World Evangelization (Gary/RC/liberals)
- Celebration 2000 (Jay Gary)
- Star of 2000 (Jay Gary)
- B.E.G.I.N. BiMillennial Global Interaction Network (Jay
Gary)
- Challenge 2000 (D.A.W.N.)
- New Life 2000 (Bill Bright's Campus Crusade)
- AD2000 and Beyond (C. Peter Wagner)
- 10/40 Window/Praying Through The Window
- United Prayer Track
- Joshua Project 2000
- Celebrate Messiah 2000
- Global Harvest Ministries
- Brigada
- Global Consultation on World Evangelism (GCOWE)
- GOSHEN
- US Centre for World Mission
- Campus Crusade for Christ
- Coalition on Revival (Jay Grimstead)
- World Evangelization Fellowship (WEF)
- World Prayer Centre
- Houses of Prayer
- Concerts of Prayer (David Bryant)
- Renovare (Richard Foster)
- Open Church Ministries (networking cell churches)
- Lighthouses Project
- Caleb Project
- The Jesus Film
- March for Jesus
- Reconciliation Movement
- Prayer Walks
- Women Aglow (Bobbye Byerly)
- Promise Keepers
- Every Home For Christ (Dick Eastman)
- Global Resource Ministries International (GRMI)
- N.A.T.I.O.N.S. (Networking Apostiolic Thrust Internationally
Or Nationally)
- S.I.G.N. (Strategic Intercession Global Network)
- D.A.W.N (Discipling A Whole Nation)
- YWAM (Youth With A Mission)
- OM (Operation Mobilisation)
- US Center for World Missions
A few Key Players
- C. Peter Wagner
- Ted Haggard
- Dr. Paul Cedar, Chairman of the Mission America Coalition
- Jay Gary
- George Otis Jnr.
- Paul Yonggi Cho
- Billy Graham
- David Bryant
- Dick Eastman
- Luis Palau
- Luis Bush
- Thomas Wang
- Bill Bright
- Jack Hayford
- Richard Halverson
- Ralph Winter
- Ralph Neighbour (Cell Church Mvt.)
- Ed Silvoso
- Chuck Pierce
- Ed Delph
- John Dawson (YWAM)
- Cindy Jacobs (Generals of Intercession)
Lighthouse Movement
Participating Denominations (in 1999)
(No implication is made as to the nature of each
church or organisation. Please research individual orgnaisations
and individuals for yourself to ascertain their true position,
doctrinally.)
- Advent Christian General Conference
- African Methodist Episcopal
- African Methodist Episcopal
Zion
- American Baptist
- Assemblies of God
- Assemblies of God, International
Fellowship
- Association of Free Lutheran
Churches
- Association of Vineyard Churches
- Baptist General Conference
- Brethren Church
- Brethren in Christ Church
- Christian Church/Church of
Christ Independent
- Christian Church of North America
- Christian & Missionary
Alliance
- Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church
- Christian Reformed Church in
North America
- Christian Union
- Church of Christ Holiness
- Church of Christ in Christian
Union
- Church of God (Anderson, IN)
- Church of God (Cleveland, TN)
- Church of God Apostolic Faith
- Church of God, Mountain Assembly,
Inc.
- Church of God in Prophecy
- Church of the United Brethren
in Christ
- Church of the Lutheran Brethren
- Church of the Nazarene
- Congregational Holiness Church
- Conservative Congregational
Christian Conference
- Conservative Lutheran Association
- Convention of Original Free
Will Baptists
- Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Elim Fellowship
- Episcopal Church
- Evangelical Church of North
America
- Evangelical Congregational
Church
- Evangelical Covenant Church
- Evangelical Free Church
- Evangelical Friends - Eastern
Region
- Evangelical Mennonite Church
- Evangelical Methodist Church
- Evangelical Presbyterian Church
- Evangelistic Missionary Fellowship
- Fellowship of Grace Brethren
Churches
- Free Methodist of North America
- Friends Church Southwest
- General Association of General
Baptists
- Good News Movement
- Int’l. Church of the Foursquare
Gospel
- International Pentecostal Church
of Christ
- International Pentecostal Holiness
Church
- Liberty Baptist Fellowship
- Mennonite Brethren
- Midwest Cong. Christian Fellowship
- Missionary Church, Inc. U.S.
- National Baptist Convention
of America
- National Missionary Baptist
Con. of America
- North American Baptist Conference
- Open Bible Standard Churches
- Partners in Ministry
- Pentecostal Church of God
- Pentecostal Free Will Baptist
Church
- Presbyterian Church in America
- Primitive Methodist Church
in the U.S.A.
- Progressive National Baptist
Convention
- Salvation Army
- Seventh Day Baptist General
Conference
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Southern Methodist Church
- The Wesleyan Church
- U.S. Wesleyan Council
- Vision New England
- Worldwide Church of God
A few of the participating
ministries:
- AD2000 and Beyond Movement
- AD2000 United Prayer Track
- AD2000 Women’s Track
- Advancing Church Ministries
- African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church
- Aglow International
- Alliance Theological Seminary
- Alpha North America
- AMEN
- American Bible Society
- American Tract Society
- Asbury Theological Seminary
- Assn. of Christians Ministering
to Internationals
- Beeson Divinity School
- Belhaven College
- Belvue Baptist Church
- Be The LIGHT Ministries Inc.
- Bethany Fellowship Missions
- Bethel College and Seminary
- Bethel Gospel Tabernacle Fellowship
- Bible Pathways
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
- Billy Graham International
Schools of Evangelism
- Bob Cryder Team Ministries
- Bob Weiner Ministries
- BridgeBuilder's International,
Inc.
- Caleb Project
- Campus Crusade for Christ International
- Campus Renewal Ministries
- Canning Hunger
- Center for Ministerial Care
- Center for World Revival and
Awakening
- Center Peace Ministries
- Challenge 2000 Alliance
- Change Your Life
- Chi Alpha Campus Ministries
- CHIEF, Inc.
- Children’s Ministries of America
- Chinese Christian Church, Washington
D.C.
- Christ For All Nations/Beyond
‘99
- Christ For The City International
- Christian Broadcasting Network,
Inc.
- Christian Camping International,
U.S.A.
- Christian Community Development
Association
- Christian Educators Association
International
- Christian Film and Television
Commission
- Christian Management Association
- Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church
- Christian Reformed Church North
America
- Christian Women United
- Christian Women's Network
- Christianity Today, Inc.
- Church in the City Ministry
- Church of the Chimes
- Church on the Way
- Church Resource Ministries
- Citi Reach Internaitonal
- Coalition Against Pornography
- Coalition of Christian Colleges
& Universities
- College Church, Wheaton, IL
- CoMission II
- Concerts of Prayer Greater
New York
- Concerts of Prayer International
- Cornerstone Baptist Church
- Covenant Church of Pittsburgh
- Covenant Presbyterian Church
- Crossroads Presbyterian Church
- Crystal Cathedral
- Crystal Evangelical Free Church
- Cultural Instights, Inc.
- Dad The Family Shepherd
- Dawn Ministries
- Doxa International University
- East Gate, IMPACT
- Elmbrook Church
- Emerging Young Leaders
- EQUIP
- Equipping Network/Navigators
- Esther Network International
- Evangelicals for Social Action
- Evangelism Explosion III International
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission
Agencies
- Evangelical Free Church of
Cypress
- Evangelical Presbyterian Church
- Every Home for Christ
- Faithful Center Missionary
Baptist Church
- Family Life Communications,
Inc.
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- First Assembly of God
- First Baptist Church
- First Covenant Church
- First Love Ministries International
- Focus on the Family
- Food for the Hungry
- Fragrance of Love, Inc.
- Francis Asbury Society
- Frazier Memorial United Methodist
Church
- Freedom in Christ Ministries
- Freedom Ministries of America
- Frontline Ministries
- Generals of Intercession
- Global Advance
- Global Net Productions
- Global Spectrum, The Urban
Group
- God's Love In Action
- Good News Movement
- Gospel Literature International
- Great Commission International
- Greater Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church
- Habitat for Humanity
- Harvest Evangelism, Inc.
- Harvest Prayer Ministries
- Heal Our Land
- Here's Life
- Highland Park Presbyterian
Church
- Hispanic Christian Communications
Network
- Hope College
- Hope For A Generation
- Hope Ministries
- I.M.P.A.C.T.
- INJOY
- Inland Empire 2000 & Beyond
- Intercessors for America
- Intercessors of Alaska, Inc.
- Interdev
- InterFACE Ministries
- International Bible Society
- International Messengers
- International Prayer Ministries
- International Reconciliation
Coalition
- International Renewal Ministries
- International Sports Coalition
- International Students, Inc.
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
- JAF Ministries
- Japanese Southern Baptist Church
of America
- Jerry Drace Evangelistic Association
- Jesus Awakening Movement for
America
- JESUS Film Project
- JESUS Video Project
- Jim Wilson Evangelistic Association
- John Guest Evangelistic Association
- Leadership Catalyst, Inc.
- Liberty University
- Light International
- Love: In The Name of Christ
- Love Your Neighborhood Ministries
- Lowell Lundstrom Ministries
- Luis Palau Evangelistic Association
- Man In The Mirror
- Manna Church
- Mapping Center for Evangelism
- March For Jesus
- Mars Hill Productions
- Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
- Metawake Revival and Evangelism
- MetroChurch
- Mission Carolina
- Mission Mississippi
- Mission Omega
- Mission Portland
- Mission USA
- Moderator
- Moody Church
- Music Works International
- Mustard Seed Associates
- National Network of Youth Ministries
- National Pastor’s Prayer Network
- National Religious Broadcasters
Association
- Navigators
- NEED HIM
- Nelson Family Foundation
- New Life Church
- New Shiloh Baptist Church
- New England Concerts of Prayer
- North American Mission Board,
SBC
- North Star Church
- Northwest College
- Northwestern College and Radio
- Oak Hills Church of Christ
- Officer’s Christian Fellowship
- OMS International, Inc.
- On The Edge Ministries
- Operation Mobilization
- Perimeter Church
- Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation
- Pocket Testament League
- Pray! Magazine
- PRAYERLINK
- PrayerWorks
- Precept Ministries
- Primitive Methodist Church
- Prision Fellowship Ministries
- Professional Dynametric Programs,
Inc.
- Promise Keepers
- Promise Reapers
- RAF Ministries
- RBC Ministries
- Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries
- Reachout Ministries
- Reformed Seminary
- Reformed Theological Seminary
- Regent University School of
Divinity
- Religion News Today
- Renewal Fellowship
- Renewal Ministries
- Revival Prayer Fellowship,
Inc.
- Revival Strategies International,
Inc.
- Roever Evangelistic Fellowship
- Ron Hutchcraft Ministries
- Russian Ministries
- Saddleback Community Church
- Scripture Press Ministries
- SIM Ethnic Focus Ministry
- Slumberland, Inc.
- Solid Rock Christian Church
- SONLIFE Ministries
- Sports Spectrum/RBC Ministries
- St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
- St. Stephen’s Church
- STEER, Inc.
- Steve Russo Evangelistic Team
- Steve Wingfield Ministries
- Student Venture
- T-NET International
- Team Impact
- The Chapel Ministries
- The Common Ground Movement
- The NET - Serving Together
- Together in Ministry, International
- Total Church Life Ministries
- Truth International
- Twelfth Baptist Church
- U.S. Center for World Mission
- U.S.C., Thornton Kidney Research
Foundation
- U.S. Prayer Track
- United Prayer Ministry
- University of California, Monterey
- Utah Games Network
- Vision New England
- Wagner Leadership Institute
- Walk Through the Bible/CoMission
- WayMakers
- Weselyan Native American Ministries
- West Bloomington Evangelical
Free Church
- Wheaton College
- Wiconi International
- Widow’s Mite Foundation
- Willow Creek Association
- Women Today International
- Woman’s MIssionary Union
- World Evangelical Fellowship
- World Impact
- World Opportunities International
- World Vision
- Young Life
- Youth For Christ
- Youth With A Mission
THE
LAUSANNE COVENANT
INTRODUCTION
We, members of the Church of Jesus
Christ, from more than 150 nations, participants in the International
Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne, praise God for
his great salvation and rejoice in the fellowship he has given
us with himself and with each other. We are deeply stirred
by what God is doing in our day, moved to penitence by our
failures and challenged by the unfinished task of evangelization.
We believe the Gospel is God's good news for the whole world,
and we are determined by his grace to obey Christ's commission
to proclaim it to all mankind and to make disciples of every
nation. We desire, therefore, to affirm our faith and our resolve,
and to make public our covenant.
1. THE PURPOSE OF GOD
We affirm our belief in the one-eternal
God, Creator and Lord of the world, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
who govern all things according to the purpose of his will.
He has been calling out from the world a people for himself,
and sending his people back into the world to be his servants
and his witnesses, for the extension of his kingdom, the building
up of Christ's body, and the glory of his name. We confess
with shame that we have often denied our calling and failed
in our mission, by becoming conformed to the world or by withdrawing
from it. Yet we rejoice that even when borne by earthen vessels
the gospel is still a precious treasure. To the task of making
that treasure known in the power of the Holy Spirit we desire
to dedicate ourselves anew.
(Isa. 40:28; Matt. 28:19; Eph.
1:11; Acts 15:14; John 17:6, 18; Eph 4:12; 1 Cor. 5:10; Rom.
12:2; II Cor. 4:7)
2. THE AUTHORITY AND POWER OF
THE BIBLE
We affirm the divine inspiration,
truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures
in their entirety as the only written word of God, without
error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule
of faith and practice. We also affirm the power of God's word
to accomplish his purpose of salvation. The message of the
Bible is addressed to all men and women. For God's revelation
in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through it the
Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the minds of God's
people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through
their own eyes and thus discloses to the whole Church ever
more of the many-colored wisdom of God.
(II Tim. 3:16; II Pet. 1:21; John
10:35; Isa. 55:11; 1 Cor. 1:21; Rom. 1:16, Matt. 5:17,18; Jude
3; Eph. 1:17,18; 3:10,18)
3. THE UNIQUENESS AND UNIVERSALITY
OF CHRIST
We affirm that there is only one
Savior and only one gospel, although there is a wide diversity
of evangelistic approaches. We recognize that everyone has
some knowledge of God through his general revelation in nature.
But we deny that this can save, for people suppress the truth
by their unrighteousness. We also reject as derogatory to Christ
and the gospel every kind of syncretism and dialogue which
implies that Christ speaks equally through all religions and
ideologies. Jesus Christ, being himself the only God-man, who
gave himself as the only ransom for sinners, is the only mediator
between God and people. There is no other name by which we
must be saved. All men and women are perishing because of sin,
but God loves everyone, not wishing that any should perish
but that all should repent. Yet those who reject Christ repudiate
the joy of salvation and condemn themselves to eternal separation
from God. To proclaim Jesus as "the Savior of the world" is
not to affirm that all people are either automatically or ultimately
saved, still less to affirm that all religions offer salvation
in Christ. Rather it is to proclaim God's love for a world
of sinners and to invite everyone to respond to him as Savior
and Lord in the wholehearted personal commitment of repentance
and faith. Jesus Christ has been exalted above every other
name; we long for the day when every knee shall bow to him
and every tongue shall confess him Lord.
(Gal. 1:6-9;Rom. 1:18-32; I Tim.
2:5,6; Acts 4:12; John 3:16-19; II Pet. 3:9; II Thess. 1:7-9;John
4:42; Matt. 11:28; Eph. 1:20,21; Phil. 2:9-11)
4. THE NATURE OF EVANGELISM
To evangelize is to spread the
good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised
from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that as the
reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the
liberating gifts of the Spirit to all who repent and believe.
Our Christian presence in the world is indispensable to evangelism,
and so is that kind of dialogue whose purpose is to listen
sensitively in order to understand. But evangelism itself is
the proclamation of the historical, biblical Christ as Savior
and Lord, with a view to persuading people to come to him personally
and so be reconciled to God. In issuing the gospel invitation
we have no liberty to conceal the cost of discipleship. Jesus
still calls all who would follow him to deny themselves, take
up their cross, and identify themselves with his new community.
The results of evangelism include obedience to Christ, incorporation
into his Church and responsible service in the world.
(I Cor. 15:3,4; Acts 2: 32-39;
John 20:21; I Cor. 1:23; II Cor. 4:5; 5:11,20; Luke 14:25-33;
Mark 8:34; Acts 2:40,47; Mark 10:43-45)
5. CHRISTIAN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
We affirm that God is both the
Creator and the Judge of all men. We therefore should share
his concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human
society and for the liberation of men and women from every
kind of oppression. Because men and women are made in the image
of God, every person, regardless of race, religion, color,
culture, class, sex or age, has an intrinsic dignity because
of which he or she should be respected and served, not exploited.
Here too we express penitence both for our neglect and for
having sometimes regarded evangelism and social concern as
mutually exclusive. Although reconciliation with other people
is not reconciliation with God, nor is social action evangelism,
nor is political liberation salvation, nevertheless we affirm
that evangelism and socio-political involvement are both part
of our Christian duty. For both are necessary expressions of
our doctrines of God and man, our love for our neighbor and
our obedience to Jesus Christ. The message of salvation implies
also a message of judgment upon every form of alienation, oppression
and discrimination, and we should not be afraid to denounce
evil and injustice wherever they exist. When people receive
Christ they are born again into his kingdom and must seek not
only to exhibit but also to spread its righteousness in the
midst of an unrighteous world. The salvation we claim should
be transforming us in the totality of our personal and social
responsibilities. Faith without works is dead.
(Acts 17:26,31; Gen. 18:25; Isa.
1:17; Psa. 45:7; Gen. 1:26,27; Jas. 3:9; Lev. 19:18; Luke 6:27,35;
Jas. 2:14-26; Joh. 3:3,5; Matt. 5:20; 6:33; II Cor. 3:18; Jas.
2:20)
6. THE CHURCH AND EVANGELISM
We affirm that Christ sends his
redeemed people into the world as the Father sent him, and
that this calls for a similar deep and costly penetration of
the world. We need to break out of our ecclesiastical ghettos
and permeate non-Christian society. In the Church's mission
of sacrificial service evangelism is primary. World evangelization
requires the whole Church to take the whole gospel to the whole
world. The Church is at the very center of God's cosmic purpose
and is his appointed means of spreading the gospel. But a church
which preaches the cross must itself be marked by the cross.
It becomes a stumbling block to evangelism when it betrays
the gospel or lacks a living faith in God, a genuine love for
people, or scrupulous honesty in all things including promotion
and finance. The church is the community of God's people rather
than an institution, and must not be identified with any particular
culture, social or political system, or human ideology.
(John 17:18; 20:21; Matt. 28:19,20;
Acts 1:8; 20:27; Eph. 1:9,10; 3:9-11; Gal. 6:14,17; II Cor.
6:3,4; II Tim. 2:19-21; Phil. 1:27)
7. COOPERATION IN EVANGELISM
We affirm that the Church's visible
unity in truth is God's purpose. Evangelism also summons us
to unity, because our oneness strengthens our witness, just
as our disunity undermines our gospel of reconciliation. We
recognize, however, that organizational unity may take many
forms and does not necessarily forward evangelism. Yet we who
share the same biblical faith should be closely united in fellowship,
work and witness. We confess that our testimony has sometimes
been marred by a sinful individualism and needless duplication.
We pledge ourselves to seek a deeper unity in truth, worship,
holiness and mission. We urge the development of regional and
functional cooperation for the furtherance of the Church's
mission, for strategic planning, for mutual encouragement,
and for the sharing of resources and experience.
(John 17:21,23; Eph. 4:3,4; John
13:35; Phil. 1:27; John 17:11-23)
8. CHURCHES IN EVANGELISTIC PARTNERSHIP
We rejoice that a new missionary
era has dawned. The dominant role of western missions is fast
disappearing. God is raising up from the younger churches a
great new resource for world evangelization, and is thus demonstrating
that the responsibility to evangelize belongs to the whole
body of Christ. All churches should therefore be asking God
and themselves what they should be doing both to reach their
own area and to send missionaries to other parts of the world.
A reevaluation of our missionary responsibility and role should
be continuous. Thus a growing partnership of churches will
develop and the universal character of Christ's Church will
be more clearly exhibited. We also thank God for agencies which
labor in Bible translation, theological education, the mass
media, Christian literature, evangelism, missions, church renewal
and other specialist fields. They too should engage in constant
self-examination to evaluate their effectiveness as part of
the Church's mission.
(Rom. 1:8; Phil. 1:5; 4:15; Acts
13:1-3, I Thess. 1:6-8)
9. THE URGENCY OF THE EVANGELISTIC
TASK
More than 2,700 million people,
which is more than two-thirds of all humanity, have yet to
be evangelized. We are ashamed that so many have been neglected;
it is a standing rebuke to us and to the whole Church. There
is now, however, in many parts of the world an unprecedented
receptivity to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are convinced that
this is the time for churches and para-church agencies to pray
earnestly for the salvation of the unreached and to launch
new efforts to achieve world evangelization. A reduction of
foreign missionaries and money in an evangelized country may
sometimes be necessary to facilitate the national church's
growth in self-reliance and to release resources for unevangelized
areas. Missionaries should flow ever more freely from and to
all six continents in a spirit of humble service. The goal
should be, by all available means and at the earliest possible
time, that every person will have the opportunity to hear,
understand, and to receive the good news. We cannot hope to
attain this goal without sacrifice. All of us are shocked by
the poverty of millions and disturbed by the injustices which
causes it. Those of us who live in affluent circumstances accept
our duty to develop a simple life-style in order to contribute
more generously to both relief and evangelism.
(John 9:4; Matt. 9:35-38; Rom.
9:1-3; I Cor. 9:19-23; Mark 16:15; Isa. 58:6,7; Jas. 1:27;
2:1-9; Matt. 25:31-46; Acts 2:44,45; 4:34,35)
10. EVANGELISM AND CULTURE
The development of strategies
for world evangelization calls for imaginative pioneering methods.
Under God, the result will be the rise of churches deeply rooted
in Christ and closely related to their culture. Culture must
always be tested and judged by Scripture. Because men and women
are God's creatures, some of their culture is rich in beauty
and goodness. Because they are fallen, all of it is tainted
with sin and some of it is demonic. The gospel does not presuppose
the superiority of any culture to another, but evaluates all
cultures according to its own criteria of truth and righteousness,
and insists on moral absolutes in every culture. Missions have
all too frequently exported with the gospel an alien culture
and churches have sometimes been in bondage to culture rather
than to Scripture. Christ's evangelists must humbly seek to
empty themselves of all but their personal authenticity in
order to become the servants of others, and churches must seek
to transform and enrich culture, all for the glory of God.
(Mark 7:8,9,13; Gen. 4:21,22;
I Cor. 9:19-23; Phil. 2:5-7; II Cor. 4:5)
11. EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP
We confess that we have sometimes
pursued church growth at the expense of church depth, and divorced
evangelism from Christian nurture. We also acknowledge that
some of our missions have been too slow to equip and encourage
national leaders to assume their rightful responsibilities.
Yet we are committed to indigenous principles, and long that
every church will have national leaders who manifest a Christian
style of leadership in terms not of domination but of service.
We recognize that there is a great need to improve theological
education, especially for church leaders. In every nation and
culture there should be an effective training program for pastors
and laity in doctrine, discipleship, evangelism, nurture and
service. Such training programs should not rely on any stereotyped
methodology but should be developed by creative local initiatives
according to biblical standards.
(Col. I:27,28; Acts 14:23; Tit.
1:5,9; Mark 10:42-45; Eph. 4:11,12)
12. SPIRITUAL CONFLICT
We believe that we are engaged
in constant spiritual warfare with the principalities and powers
of evil, who are seeking to overthrow the Church and frustrate
its task of world evangelization. We know our need to equip
ourselves with God's armor and to fight this battle with the
spiritual weapons of truth and prayer. For we detect the activity
of our enemy, not only in false ideologies outside the Church,
but also inside it in false gospels which twist Scripture and
put people in the place of God. We need both watchfulness and
discernment to safeguard the biblical gospel. We acknowledge
that we ourselves are not immune to worldliness of thoughts
and action, that is, to a surrender to secularism. For example,
although careful studies of church growth, both numerical and
spiritual, are right and valuable, we have sometimes neglected
them. At other times, desirous to ensure a response to the
gospel, we have compromised our message, manipulated our hearers
through pressure techniques, and become unduly preoccupied
with statistics or even dishonest in our use of them. All this
is worldly. The Church must be in the world; the world must
not be in the Church.
(Eph. 6:12; II Cor. 4:3,4; Eph.
6:11,13-18; II Cor. 10:3-5; I John 2:18-26; 4:1-3; Gal. 1:6-9;
II Cor. 2:17; 4:2; John 17:15)
13. FREEDOM AND PERSECUTION
It is the God-appointed duty of
every government to secure conditions of peace, justice and
liberty in which the Church may obey God, serve the Lord Jesus
Christ, and preach the gospel without interference. We therefore
pray for the leaders of nations and call upon them to guarantee
freedom of thought and conscience, and freedom to practice
and propagate religion in accordance with the will of God and
as set forth in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We also express our deep concern for all who have been unjustly
imprisoned, and especially for those who are suffering for
their testimony to the Lord Jesus. We promise to pray and work
for their freedom. At the same time we refuse to be intimidated
by their fate. God helping us, we too will seek to stand against
injustice and to remain faithful to the gospel, whatever the
cost. We do not forget the warnings of Jesus that persecution
is inevitable.
(I Tim. 1:1-4, Acts 4:19; 5:29;
Col. 3:24; Heb. 13:1-3; Luke 4:18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12; Matt. 5:10-12;
John 15:18-21)
14. THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the power of the
Holy Spirit. The Father sent his Spirit to bear witness to
his Son, without his witness ours is futile. Conviction of
sin, faith in Christ, new birth and Christian growth are all
his work. Further, the Holy Spirit is a missionary spirit;
thus evangelism should arise spontaneously from a Spirit-filled
church. A church that is not a missionary church is contradicting
itself and quenching the Spirit. Worldwide evangelization will
become a realistic possibility only when the Spirit renews
the Church in truth and wisdom, faith, holiness, love and power.
We therefore call upon all Christians to pray for such a visitation
of the sovereign Spirit of God that all his fruit may appear
in all his people and that all his gifts may enrich the body
of Christ. Only then will the whole world become a fit instrument
in his hands, that the whole earth may hear his voice.
(I Cor. 2:4; John 15:26;27; 16:8-11;
I Cor. 12:3; John 3:6-8; II Cor. 3:18; John 7:37-39; I Thess.
5:19; Acts 1:8; Psa. 85:4-7; 67:1-3; Gal. 5:22,23; I Cor. 12:4-31;
Rom. 12:3-8)
15. THE RETURN OF CHRIST
We believe that Jesus Christ will
return personally and visibly, in power and glory, to consummate
his salvation and his judgment. This promise of his coming
is a further spur to our evangelism, for we remember his words
that the gospel must first be preached to all nations. We believe
that the interim period between Christ's ascension and return
is to be filled with the mission of the people of God, who
have no liberty to stop before the end. We also remember his
warning that false Christs and false prophets will arise as
precursors of the final Antichrist. We therefore reject as
a proud, self-confident dream the notion that people can ever
build a utopia on earth. Our Christian confidence is that God
will perfect his kingdom, and we look forward with eager anticipation
to that day, and to the new heaven and earth in which righteousness
will dwell and God will reign forever. Meanwhile, we rededicate
ourselves to the service of Christ and of people in joyful
submission to his authority over the whole of our lives.
(Mark 14:62; Heb. 9:28; Mark 13:10;
Acts 1:8-11; Matt. 28:20; Mark 13:21-23; John 2:18; 4:1-3;
Luke 12:32; Rev. 21:1-5; II Pet. 3:13; Matt. 28:18)
CONCLUSION
Therefore, in the light of this
our faith and our resolve, we enter into a solemn covenant
with God and with each other, to pray, to plan and to work
together for the evangelization of the whole world. We call
upon others to join us. May God help us by his grace and for
his glory to be faithful to this our covenant! Amen, Alleluia!
A Selection of Web Links
for Sonship-MSOG-Revival and Global Evangelism
PLEASE NOTE: Some of these links may no longer
work. The Internet is not a static environment and web pages
and web sites change every day. If you get a "404"
(not known) result from any link, please do not write to me
as I have no time to keep these links fresh. Please follow
the instructions below:
The structure of links. Example: www.domain.org/extra/mandibles.html
=
- mandibles.html is the name of the document or page and
- 'extra' is a sub-directory and
- www.domain.org is the web root.
- Websites that do not have their own domain name will have
one extra part, the root of their server, in front of their
webroot, for example - www.server.net/mysite/extra/mandibles.html
How to resolve "not Found" errors
- If you cannot obtain a document through the given link,
delete the document name from the URL in your browser address
window, and try again.
- If this does not bring any result, delete the sub-directory
name also from the URL and try accessing the web site root
itself to see if it still exists. If it does not, proceed
as below.
- If you get a "not known" result when the link
is just the website root (www.eaglestar.org) this suggests
the web site has moved. Often there will be a redirection
notice you can follow.
- If you are trying to access a website that is hosted by
a server, you could try going to that server's home page,
(delete everything in the URL down to the server root) as
many ISP's keep directories of their hosted sites. If the
site you want is still active, it may be listed there.
- If it is not listed by the host server, and there is no
redirection notice, then you can often find the new address
by typing the name of the organisation into an Internet search
engine such as Google, HotBot, Yahoo or Momma. There are
many of these search engines listed on my
links page.
- Another approach is to visit an active website that is
similar in character, and see whether that web site has a
list of links.
- If all these fail to find the organisation, it has probably
gone out of existence or has merged with another organisation
on the web.
-
Apostolic/Prophetic and Latter-Rain
People:
Sites - Prophetic
Sites - Apostolic, Sonship + others
Resources and Writings
Their own links to more Apostolic/Prophetic sites
Global Evangelisation and Missions
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