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Our Vision:

Reaching the world for Christ is a vision that continues to stir the hearts of leaders worldwide. More than 2000 evangelistic plans have been developed to accomplish this goal. Because of the urgency of the hour, we believe that God is speaking to the Body of Christ in a significant way to unite us in the task of bringing transformation to cities and people groups. To be effective and to have a significant impact, we are partnering with leaders and networking with local churches and ministries, both nationally and internationally. As we move in a united effort, we will enhance and strengthen one another for a greater harvest.

At GMI our vision compels us to: Our Mandate and Mission Scriptures:

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." (Isaiah 61/Luke 4:18-19)

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:19-20)

"Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel [nations/people groups]. As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give." (Matthew 10:6-8)

We strategically select certain people groups or areas around the globe as the Lord directs. In each region, the Gateway/IGSM team, partners with and ministers to the local pastors, churches, community leaders to restore, train, nurture and empower them for a greater harvest.

Our training is accomplished through GMI in partnership with the International Graduate School of Ministry (IGSM). Together we seek to prepare teams and raise funds to establish Ministry Training sites that would house both ministries.

As we pray, work, and proclaim together, we believe that the walls of partition will come down between churches, the business community and people groups as genuine unity and reconciliation take place. We seek to network with Apostolic leaders both in the church and community who are gifted and called to transform their cities or regions.

We believe God will do many powerful miracles and healings in our midst, bringing forth the needed spiritual touch as we commit to His purposes and will. Multitudes will respond to the presence of the Lord through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as we bring the Good News and help strengthen the leadership and train and equip the saints to fulfill their destiny and call.

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Bio of Bev Klopp:

Dr. Bev Klopp is the President and Founder of Gateway Ministries International (GMI).

Bev’s focus and passion over the past 30 years has been prophetic intercession over cities, nations and people groups, along with evangelism outreach/crusades, church planting, leadership training, equipping the body of Christ, and ministry to orphans and the disadvantaged.

Bev’s heart is to walk in intimacy with the Lord as a springboard to bring true biblical restoration for the church and ultimately to the nations. She carries an abiding focus for establishing “ACTS Teams” (Apostolic City Transformation Strategies) for bringing sustained changes in all spheres of society and to act as a Kingdom advocate for God’s mercy to the nations.

Bev and her husband, Henry have been led to unite with apostolic prophetic leaders and intercessors with strategies to facilitate transformation of regions. They have served in ministry since 1975 with 12 years in pastoral roles in churches including planting 8 churches in the Puget Sound area. Henry has worked as a national church consultant and is the founder and President of the International Graduate School of Ministry established to train and equip leaders in practical ministry throughout many nations. Henry and Bev have two children four grandchildren.

In 1985 the Lord directed Bev to establish Gateway Ministries International. She received a clear call in 1989 to cross-cultural ministry. As a result she began to pursue a Masters degree in cross-cultural missions at the School of World Mission at Fuller Seminary and has recently finished her Doctorate of Ministry degree with the International Graduate School of Ministry. Bev is listed in Dr. Billy Graham’s publication, Notable Names in Evangelism for her work in local outreach and international crusades held throughout various tribes of Kenya and the capitol, Nairobi.

For many years Greater Seattle and the State of Washington were the focus for Bev’s ministry allowing her to work closely with regional leaders and intercessors to bring transformational principles to the forefront. She traveled to Argentina to observe the revival there and learn the transformational principles of Ed Silvosa and the Argentine pastors and evangelists. Over the years she has led regional and state-wide vigils, organized reconciliation efforts between ethnic leaders, and called for repentance and prayer events regarding historical/generational sins of the church and the city of Seattle. A 24/7 House of Prayer and Evangelism (HOPE Center) was established along with a “ Seattle Prayer Wall” which included training churches, intercessors and Gideon warriors with onsite prayer and outreach assignments in Seattle and throughout the state. Spiritual mapping research of the region was one of the tools that Bev used to discern and target the prayer needs and for cleansing the land. Prayer guides were written for establishing informed intercession and for the city of Seattle including prayer for key leaders of influence in each of the spheres of society called Adopt a Pastor & Five-fold Leader. Seattle is the first city to have occult ley-lines laid out over the city. Bev led a city-wide prayer effort with informed research to break the power of this influence. She enlisted pastors and leaders to pray and repent at specific sites for the past sins of Seattle and gathered to meet at the Columbia Tower downtown to pray and make prophetic declarations, dedicating Seattle to the rule and reign of Jesus Christ.

Bev served on several local boards such as March for Jesus and the N. W. Prayer Ministry which brought national prayer leaders into the area for prayer training and corporate intercession. During this time Bev also worked with Women’s Aglow as the Washington State prayer leader. In 1991 Bev was assigned by Dutch Sheets to cover Washington State Native Americans with prayer. A year-long prayer fast was called for the tribes with on-site assignments to pray over each reservation. Recently Bev has called for an Esther Prayer Vigil and Fast for the Native Americans throughout Washington and the USA.

Nationally Bev has led several prayer efforts covering the Northwest states, Canada, the USA and Washington DC. In 1994 she called for a National Fast and Prayer Vigil for the USA and assigned teams to the four corners and center of the nation to establish tent pegs and a canopy of God’s presence. This included the entire border regions of Canada and the USA. For several years she was an intercessor and traveled with the Spiritual Warfare Network headed by Dr. C. Peter Wagner and Dr. Chuck Pierce. As a result of her efforts in Seattle, Dr. Wagner asked her write a chapter in his book on breaking strongholds using her spiritual mapping information. She also worked closely with Evelyn Christiansen and a group of national women leaders on establishing evangelism training and outreaches into the nations. Part of this was connected with the AD 2000 effort.

Internationally, Bev began her missions thrust in 1989 holding crusades and training seminars in Kenya that have continued over the past 20 years with Kenyan leaders. Churches have been built, lands purchased and an orphanage established called Gateway of Hope. Part of Bev’s continued focus has included spiritual mapping of people groups, cities and nations for the purpose of writing prayer manuals, calling prayer vigils and leading intercessory/outreach teams to national and international sites. These prayer manuals contain strategic research and prayers with insights specific to the targeted people group. The materials are based on the prophetic fulfillment of the Book of Esther and the deliverance of the Jewish people from total annihilation. These principles of bringing deliverance and salvation to an entire people group are then applied to each prayer effort. Since 1988, Bev has called for an annual Prayer Vigil & 3 Day Esther Fast for Israel, the Jewish People & the Middle East. Over the years she has led teams and called an Esther Vigil for the following cities and nations: Germany, Kenya/Nairobi & Tribal groups, Japan/Tokyo, China/Beijing/Dalian/Dandong, North and South Korea//Seoul/Inchon/DMZ Zone, Russia/St. Petersburg, Siberia/Vladivostok, India, Israel/Jerusalem, Jordan/Amman/Petra, USA/WA DC/Seattle/WA State/, Native Americans and America.

Recently, Bev has written a prayer manual calling for a National 9-Day Prayer Vigil & Esther 3-Day Fast for America and the Native Americans. The vigil has been called since 2007 in preparation for a nation-wide cleansing on the land. Bev is currently working with a team to bring reconciliation to the Puget Sound native people regarding the Point Elliot Treaty that placed the host people on reservations. She is calling a 2010 vigil with emphasis on the Washington State Native Americans.

Bev’s next assignments include the spiritual mapping of Calcutta, India for future prayer and outreach ministry. Bev is also pursuing a possible 24/7 House of Prayer & Worship in the Lake Union area of Seattle and she and Henry are seeking to establishing training centers to equipping the church. They continue to work as part of an apostolic prophetic group seeking to bring leaders together to restore the five-fold leadership model to cities.

Bev has written numerous other materials including: In addition, Bev has written a chapter in Dr. C. Peter Wagner’s book, “Breaking Strongholds.”

                                    


Bio of Dr. Henry Klopp:

Dr. Henry Klopp has his Doctor of Ministry degree in the field of Church Growth and has done graduate work at both Fuller Theological Seminary and the California Graduate School of Theology. Dr. Klopp received his training for church consulting from the Charles E. Fuller Institute in Pasadena, California, and served as an associate consultant for them for eight years. He did part-time consulting with churches from 1981-1988 and full-time consulting from 1989-1998 and 1999-2003. Dr. Klopp has worked individually with over 100 churches representing twenty different denominations throughout the United States. During that time he has also worked internationally, training and equipping pastors for ministry. Dr. Klopp has also helped start eight new churches in the Seattle area.

Over the years Dr. Klopp has also served as Pastor of Evangelism, Executive Pastor and as an Interim Sr. Pastor for three different churches in the Seattle area.

Currently Dr. Klopp is in the process of starting a new graduate school for training pastors, the International Graduate School of Ministry (IGSM), which currently operates in 23 different countries with over 200 pastors and leaders taking courses. These countries include Canada, Denmark, France, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirate, Oman, United Kingdom, India, Philippines, and Ghana.

In addition, he has published two books:
            

Henry and Bev reside in Bellevue Washington were they have lived for 40 years. Together they have served in the local church with Henry serving as an associate pastor in several churches. Bev continues to teach Bible studies, lead prayer efforts, and train with her husband through his consulting work with churches. They have two married children, Lance and Raundi, and 4 grandchildren.

Lance and his wife, Karleen, have two sons, Zachary and Joshua, and recently adopted two children from Ethiopia, Samuel and Tsion. Lance has been a Young Life Director for North Kitsap and Bainbridge Island in Washington.

Raundi and her husband, Andrew, currently live in Georgia. Raundi owns a web site development company, Epic Web Design, which she began approximately 8 years ago. Andy, a career Marine, has served overseas in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq and has received a number of medals for his service to our country, including the Medal of Valor.

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What We Believe:
Gateway Ministries International has adopted the National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith as its own:
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The Lausanne Covenant
Gateway Ministries International adheres to the Lausanne Covenant which was established at the International Congress on World Evangelization, in Lausanne, Switzerland, July 1974.

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 governs 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 and 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 mankind. For God's revelation in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through the Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the mind of God s people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through our 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; Jude 3; Eph. 1:17, 18; 3:10, 18)

3. The Uniqueness and Universality of Christ

We affirm that there is only one Saviour and only one gospel although there is a wide diversity of evangelistic approaches. We recognize that all men have some knowledge of God through his general revelation in nature. But we deny that this can save for men 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 man. There is no other name by which we must be saved. All men are perishing because of sin but God loves all men 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 "Saviour of the world" is not to affirm that all men 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 world of sinners and to invite all men to respond to Him as Saviour 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.
(Gal. 1:6-9; Rom. 1:8-32; 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 gift 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 Saviour and Lord with a view of 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 shore his concern for justice and reconciliation throughout human society and for the liberation of men from every kind of oppression. Because mankind is mode 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 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 man is not reconciliation with God nor is social action evangelism, nor is political liberation salvation, nevertheless we affirm that evangelism and sociopolitical 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 his 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; John 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; 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 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, 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 labour in Bible translation and 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 13:3; 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 mankind 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 of the earliest possible time, that every person will have the opportunity to hear understand, and 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 cause it. Those of us who live in affluent circumstances accept our duty to develop a simple lifestyle 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 man is God's creature, some of his culture is rich in beauty and goodness. Because he is 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 all too frequently have exported with the gospel on alien culture and churches have sometimes been in bondage to culture rather than to the 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 initiative according to biblical standards.
(Col 1:27, 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 man 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 thought and action, that is 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; 1 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 Christ, and preach the gospel without interference. We therefore pray for the leaders of the 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 our brethren who are suffering for their testimony to the Lord Jesus. We promise to pray and work for their freedom. At the some 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; 5:19; 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 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 Church become a fit instrument in his hands, that the whole earth may hear his voice.
(II Cor. 2:4; John 15:26, 27; 16:8-11; I Cor. 12:3; John 3:68; 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 man can ever build a utopia on earth. Our Christian conscience 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 men, 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!

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