We desire to provide a philosophical framework for understanding the curriculum's essential core. We hope this will also serve as a guide to those developing supporting curricula and resources. As the Perspectives Movement continues to expand internationally into other languages and cultural contexts, this framework will help those adapting the course to transfer the core concepts rather than merely translating the material.

It is important to note that this is not a summary of the course content (i.e. the specific teaching objectives such as the Kingdom of God, understanding worldview, appropriate contextualization, etc.). Additional tools are currently under development to list content items and relate them to resources used to teach them.

Click on a asterisk for an expanded description of the idea.

1. God initiates *
2. and God advances *
3. His work by and with His people *
4. for the completion of *
5. His purpose of drawing many from every people to glorify Christ. *
6. The Bible is a unified story of God's purpose. *
7. History has continuity. *
8. History has a culmination. *
9. The Christian movement has brought positive social transformation. *
10. The mission task can and will be completed. *
11. Church-planting movements are the basic objective of evangelization. *
12. World population is understood in terms of people groups. *
13. The progress of global evangelization is assessable in terms of church movements within people groups. *
14. Church planting movements (people movements) follow social avenues of influence (sociologically informed). *
15. Effective cross-cultural evangelism follows communication patterns within cultures (anthropologically informed), *
16. and includes strategic holism (community development integrated with church planting). *
17. World Christian discipleship as whole-life integration spans the go-er / sender / mobilizer role diversity. *
18. World evangelization has always been advanced by collaborative efforts of churches and mission agencies of diverse cultures and traditions. *

Version: 3/19/2002