Free Gift – 7 Mountains Video
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I have been teaching about the 7 Mountains of Influence for 30 years. This is the revelation that the Lord showed YWAM Co-Founder Loren Cunningham many years before I ever heard of it. In 1975, Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade and Loren Cunningham, developed a God-given, world-changing strategy. This is what Loren said about the revelation:“It was August, 1975. My family and I were up in a little cabin in Colorado. And the Lord had given me that day a list of things I had never thought about before. He said “This is the way to reach America and nations for God.And {He said}, “You have to see them like classrooms or like places that were already there, and go into them with those who are already working in those areas.” And I call them “mind-molders” or “spheres”. I got the word “spheres” from II Corinthians 10 where Paul speaks in the New American Standard about the “spheres” he had been called into. And with these spheres there were seven of them.”
“A little later that day, the ranger came up, and he said, “There is a phone call for you back at the ranger’s station.” So I went back down, about 7 miles, and took the call. It was a mutual friend who said, “Bill Bright and Vonnette are in Colorado at the same time as you are. Would you and Darlene come over and meet with them? They would love to meet with you.” So we flew over to Boulder on a private plane of a friend of ours. And as we came in and greeted each other, {we were friends for quite a while}, and I was reaching for my yellow paper that I had written on the day before. And he said, “Loren, I want to show you what God has shown me!” And it was virtually the same list that God had given me the day before. Three weeks later, my wife Darlene had seen Dr. Francis Shaffer on TV and he had the same list! And so I realized that this was for the body of Christ.”
Loren and Bill began to develop strategies for their ministries with a mandate to bring Godly change to a nation by reaching its seven spheres, or mountains, of societal influence. They concluded that in order to truly transform any nation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, these seven facets of society must be reached. Part of that strategy, for YWAM, was to organize The University of the Nations by Colleges that would each focus on one of the 7 mountains.
Each of us has a calling on our lives from God to at least one of the 7 mountains. The Lord showed me the names of the 7 Mountains of Influence in our culture using a couple of different names than Loren originally saw. These are the ones the Lord gave me, in alphabetical order. A – G, and the original names that God gave Loren, in parenthesis, if they are different. I love that the Lord showed me these in alphabetical order, because it helps me to remember them!
A – Arts and Entertainment (Celebration – Arts, Entertainment, and Sports)
B – Business (Economics – Business, Science, and Technology)
C – Church (Religion)
D – Distribution of information (Media)
E – Education
F – Family
G – Government
Many of you are called to the mountain of Arts and Entertainment, or Media. But, if you are not sure where you are called, I encourage you to pray and ask the Lord to show you which Mountain of Culture He has called you to.
In addition, our FREE GIFT this month, is access to Loren Cunningham’s 2012 teaching on the 7 Mountains titled “Seven Spheres of Influence.” on the YWAM Podcast Network. There are both audio and video options on the link below.
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