Top Priorities
1. Learn about World A.
2. Speak about World A.
3. Give to missions in World A.
4. Go to minister in World A.
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5. TODAY'S MEGAPRIORITIES IN WORLD MISSION
Over a period of years we asked hundreds of Great Commission Christians what our
priorities should be today in order to redress the situation in World A. Here are
some of their answers (out of several hundred proposed).
In 1986, the Union of International Associations in Brussels produced a list of over
10,000 large, broad world problems affecting many countries each. Other global strategists
list over 12,480 current, serious global problems of significance and urgency. If smaller
problems are added, the list expands to two million or so. These are condensed and
summarized below, as 31 long-term megapriorities.
Great Commission Christians targeting their total energies toward's Christ's world mission
are concerned to see that solutions to all these problems are found, and rapidly. Many
problems, perhaps most, can be dealt with by political, governmental or corporate
entities but require Christian activists to galvanize them. Other problems are strictly
the responsibility of Christians, either individually or collectively.
31 Long-Term Megapriorities (for the Christian world)
- Solving world hunger.
- Abolishing global poverty.
- Readying disaster aid and relief.
- Redistributing/sharing wealth worldwide
- Neutralizing structures of sin.
- Saving the environment.
- upholding human rights.
- Advocating JPIC (Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation)
- Demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons.
- Stressing peace, liberation, contextualization.
- Ministering in world-wide modes.
- Promoting spiritual renewal and revival.
- Redeploying Christian resources globally.
- Supporting marginalized: women, children, disenfranchized, disabled.
- Controlling/preventing epidemics and pandemics.
- Completing world evangelization.
- Accessing all restricted-access countries.
- Ministering in all closed countries.
- Developing multiple ministry options in unevangelized areas.
- Reaching all 2,000 unreached peoples.
- Expounding development missiology.
- Mobilizing lay ministries worldwide.
- Expanding nonresidential mission.
- Planning whole-globe strategies.
- Training for cross-cultural mission.
- Extending urban mission across the Third World.
- Programming Great Commission action cooperatively.
- Living within power Christianity (signs and wonders).
- Developing apologetics for non-Christian neofundamentalists.
- Mobilizing Third-World foreign missions.
- Preparing a global mass-media strategy.
18 corporate megapriorities today (for agencies)
- Expand the Global Action Network and its network of leaders.
- Chart monthly progress with sophisticated monitors.
- Bring global plans into public prominence.
- Expound the case for attempting to finish the task by set deadlines.
- Send a communique to all 410 current global plan leaders.
- Send a communique to all key leaders not involved in global plans.
- Divide the 200 AD 2000 global goals into subgoals.
- Propose specific agencies tackle specific unreached peoples.
- Place nonresidential missionaries in every unreached people.
- Challenge agencies to offer resources to implement the Global Action Plan.
- Educate the Christian public on what world evangelization entails.
- Translate all GEM-WERC/GAP documents into megalanguages.
- Catalog global Christian resources and who benefits from them.
- Expound redistribution and redeployment of resources.
- Expand the Great Commission network.
- Find logistical solutions for new features of global mission.
- Assist 10 or 20 viable global plans to reach their targets.
- Challenge Christian youth worldwide to 2-year service abroad.
11 personal priorities (for the reader)
- Study Ephesians 3 and how you fit into God's plan.
- Follow a daily prayer guide that covers World A.
- Offer to promote the cause of World A in your spare time.
- Give World A and its welfare your central concern.
- Start speaking publicly about closure.
- Speak to mission boards you know about these matters.
- Offer to assist the GEM-WERC office in some capacity.
- Find at least one concrete GAP task you can tackle now.
- Offer to translate the GAP or a summary into a language you know.
- Consider full-time service in World A.
- Apply to several agencies offering to serve in World A.
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