“Seven Mountains” (Elder Alex Guo)

Isabella, Matthew and I are very grateful for your prayer covering while we were attending the Discipleship Training School (DTS)!
Looking back with hindsight, attending DTS was 100% God’s orchestration because He brought a specific speaker to unlock the meaning of the prophetic words given to us.  One was to build “new superhighway for missionaries” and the second was “to raise up a banner for His Nations”.  The speaker’s focus was on Isaiah 62 Highway.  Specifically, Isaiah 62: 10-“Pass through, pass through the gates!  Prepare the way for the people.  Build up, build up the highway!  Remove the stones.  Raise a banner for the nations.”  Through this speaker, I found out there is a new silk road being built from China connecting around 60 countries within the 10-40 window.  Our call is to build Kingdom businesses along the new Silk Road with focus on discipleship and social impact.  Kingdom business is real business and real mission.
Loren Cunningham, the founder of The Youth with a mission (YWAM) received a vision from God in 1975 regarding the 7 spheres of a society. Interestingly, Dr. Bill Bright, founder of campus crusade received the same vision around the same time and he called it the 7 mountains. A month later, Dr. Francis Schaffer also received the same vision. God was telling these 3 change agents where the battlefield was. The message was that in order to transform a nation, all 7 mountains of the society have to be transformed.
These 7 mountains are Business, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Family, and Religion.  Think of the 7 Mountains as the 7 areas of influence within a Nation. These 7 mountains shape the culture and the belief system of a Nation.  The laws of a Nation are shaped by the Government Mountain, the music, movies, TV shows contents are shaped by the Arts & Entertainment Mountain, the information represented in the news is shaped by the Media Mountain, and the school teachings given to our children are by the Education Mountain.  I think you get the picture.
We are doing a good job with the Religion Mountain, it is well established, protected, and anchored by many anointed leaders - but this is just one of the 7 mountains.  We need to take the other 6 mountains and anchor them with anointed leaders as well.  Imagine with me: the kind of movies and TV shows we would see if we have the Arts and Entertainment Mountain, the kind of Government we will have if we have more believers on the top of the Government Mountain as Mayors, Governors, Senators, Congressmen, VP and even President.  The same is for Education, Media, Family and Business.
I believe we are all called to be Kingdom missionaries:  Kingdom business missionaries, Kingdom Government missionaries, Kingdom Education Missionaries, and so on. What if all 7 Mountains are working together to represent God’s Kingdom here on earth?  What if all 7 mountains are working in concert with each other? It’s time to reclaim the other 6 mountains!
He has given us different gifts and talents, we are not made to be ordinary but to be extraordinary, we are call to be the head and not the tail.  We are called to be change agent, anchor and watchmen on all 7 mountains.
Which mountain will you take?

The true indicator of the health of a church is not the size of the congregation, the offering,
the staff, the building, or any of the worldly measures we like to use. I believe the true
indicator of a healthy church is a church that is fully and completely dedicated to fulfilling the
Great Commission. When evaluating all of our ministries, we are to ask ourselves, “Are we
going, sending and equipping people to do this?” “Are we involved in the disciple-making
process?” And if we are not doing that, then we ought to make changes or adjust our
ministries to bring them back into focus with the heartbeat of Jesus. The bottom line is this –
we are called to be Great Commission Christians and to build a Healthy Missional Church!
Jesus only mentions the church in two verses (Matthew 16:18 & 18:17). Based on these
verses, it would be difficult to determine that Jesus was focused on the size of the
attendance or the offering. As I read the Gospels, Jesus placed heavy emphasis on our
obedience as He sends His followers to go and make disciples. What if our church actually
focused on winning the lost and making disciples? And what if our church were intentional
about training every believer to make disciples who make disciples…so on and so on?
As your pastor, I want to see NCFC become a church that’s being filled with spiritual
multipliers: a church full of people who can reproduce themselves. Each of us taking the
responsibility of winning, teaching, baptizing, bringing people into the church, equipping
them and sending them back out. I pray that we would all be dedicated to such an
unending cycle of spiritual reproduction. For there’s nothing more important and powerful
than we, as a body of Christ, becoming this kind of people and church.
Over the years, I’ve noticed that new Christians often have fervor to share their faith.
In time, however, many find their hearts cooling off as they wander away from their
relationship with Jesus. I pray that we would all rediscover the passion of our early
Christian days! We must keep it fresh and vibrant in our daily walk with the Lord.
Meditate, read, and study the Word of God. Learn to remain in Him who promised
to remain in us (John 15). Take your personal time with the Lord and your prayer life
seriously. Take time today to praise God for His salvation. Then commit to carrying
out your part in the Great Commission by talking about Jesus with someone in your life.
Look around, we are surrounded by broken lives everywhere! No more excuses! No
time to waste! Let us reawaken the passion of going and making disciples for His
Kingdom!

Rev. Jason Kim